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From: rajwa tohme rajwat@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:49:47 +0000
Subject: Re: Pads
To: Pierre Marchand pierremarc07@gmail.com
Cc: Amélie Vancoppenolle vancoamelie@hotmail.com, Femke Snelting
snelting@collectifs.net, Peggy Pierrot
peggy.pierrot@transatlantiques.be, Pierre Huyghebaert
pierre@speculoos.com, Seda Guerses Seda.Guerses@cs.kuleuven.be,
Seda Guerses sguerses@esat.kuleuven.be,
philippe.riviere@visionscarto.net
And this is what i have attached below.
I think Pierre H also has the pictures of he drawings we did last minute
for the presentation.
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:33 AM Pierre Marchand pierremarc07@gmail.com
wrote:
Here the one I got
On 14 Dec 2017 9:29 a.m., “Seda Guerses” sguerses@esat.kuleuven.be
wrote:
I think we had some pictures of our drawings on the butcher paper, too. I
wonder who has those?!
s.
On Dec 11, 2017, at 9:34 AM, Pierre Huyghebaert pierre@speculoos.com
wrote:
Here are mine : https://citerne.speculoos.com/s/ggPhXwTycYo7SHJ (upload
and editing permitted!)
But i think Constant (An?) will etherdump and dump the whole one day :)
Pierre
On 10 December 2017 at 21:43, Seda Guerses sguerses@esat.kuleuven.be
wrote:
Thanks for this, Pierre. What would also be great is to have the
different pictures of our notes and images (may I dare say
visualizations!). I noticed I don’t have any of them, and if you send them
to me, I can also happily pass them onto An to be included in the ether box
gallery.
s.
On Dec 10, 2017, at 9:32 PM, Pierre Huyghebaert pierre@speculoos.com
wrote:
Before closing the pads tabs open in my browser, and before receiving the
etherdump, here is a copy/paste :)
Already : VERY happy to have spent that time with you!
Kisses,
Pierre Huyghebaert ✆ +32 495 90 56 32 <0495%2090%2056%2032>
Speculoos · Rue Van Elewyckstraat, 47
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· 1050 Brussels ☏ +32 2 646 30 79 <02%20646%2030%2079> · BE 0470 966 276
speculoos.com · osp.kitchen · medor.coop
waend.com · atelier-cartographique.be · lacambretypo.be
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Spec pad
- Objects and Curves
- Paths represent the geometry of the outline of an object.
- Paths represent the geometry of the outline of an object.
- Paths represent the geometry of the outline of an object.
- He read the sentence over and over again but could not grasp what
exactly bothered him. The document itself was clear and crisp as ever, and
the standard it represented could still change the future of the World Wide
Web. They had developed a lightweight, scalable vector format, a language
for describing two-dimensional graphics. It opened up the kind of
applications he had been dreaming of, since the early nineties, and he
sometimes felt frustrated that their work wasn’t embraced with more
enthusiasm. But he had also been around long enough to know that the
quality of the standard was not necessarily linked to the speed of its
implementation.
- *Paths represent the outline of a shape which can be filled,
stroked, used as a clipping path, or any combination of the three. *
- His pencil drifted over the paper. *It all came down to objects in
the end. It was as if they had betrayed the line*.
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http://snelting.domainepublic.net/texts/pressurereliefscenes_corr.pdf
Wikihow ‘how to write a spec’
https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Technical-Specification
A Technical Specification (TS) is a normative document, the development
of which can be envisaged when various alternatives that would not gather
enough as to allow agreement on a European Standard (EN), need to coexist
in anticipation of future harmonization, or for providing specifications in
experimental circumstances and/or evolving technologies.
*M*inutes of the specification committee
⚠ Warning: the committee wants to be taken seriously.static
The committee should be able to share: if our only point of reference is
our own body, how do we share experience of the pam.
Beginning:
0:00
WHERE WE CROSSED
The desire to talk about flows of migration in relationship to maps.
The fact that media, in different form, take advantage of the staticness
of maps, accentuating the depiction of flows of immigration as a problem.
At the same time, we found ourselves in having a desire to document,
archive, provide space for the practices of people on the move. This raised
issues of exposure and exoticism.
So, what kind of map would provide the basis upon which we could graps
en embodies these movements in space without them being snapped to the stable
grid of a top-down global map.
The idea to show the flows was because we wanted to block it.
To see the flows, as things we can jam, to stretch things…
Flaw: when there is a mistake
Flaw and flow being similar
The idea where you can bug this thing.
Cause there is repetition in the flow.
If it is a map that has flows, it is a map where you can decide which
flow to ride.
Flows and what we can do with flows shape our orientations or set the
conditions upon which we can co-determine our orientations.
The river preexists capitalism
but its acceleration attracts capitalism
Flows can show what is missing to embrace our desired orientations by
describing actions that can direct the flows.
Stillness or slowness is needed to observe flow. To move beyond linear
time and to recognize the patterns of flow.
If you flow with the flow, the flow looks still.
This idea of orientation, with its queerness and feminism. When you
separate yourself from the rest, this is somehow us, You follow the line
and you curve it. You don’t let the line continue straight.
You start with a straight line and put these control points, you need to
converge these things. Connect flows together.
The routes of migration and the routes of colonialism are somehow the
same roads.
This is how colonialism is starting to decompose. Europe is getting what
it had already started.
Capitalism and flows
The aim of capitalism is big static things: accumulation
WHAT IT IS NOT
We are specifying a pam that does not start with the assumptions that :
- things are stable
- the map is neural, objective, or universal
- there is only one dimension of ‘border’
- there is ground and sky
- there is gravity
- that we are not hovering safely above
- there is a point or flow ‘A’ which is in motion vs. a set of points
or geographic identity ‘B’ that are not
- that are identities are fixed
WHAT IT COULD BE
We are specifying a new pam of :
- orientations and directions based on the fact that we are relational
- borders are plural and multidimensional
- individuals are very much at the center of the map
- flows: of different texture, motion, smoothness etc.
- co-constituted space and action
- acts / actions / activities
- stopping an action ends one flows/actions, but potentially starts
other flows/actions
- velocity/multiple speeds/velocity by attraction
- approaching
- degrees of stillness
- passive / active stillness
- plural in the reference point: not one vanishing point, but having
multiple vanishing points, there is no horizon and no more perspective
possible
- multidimensionality (multiple ‘gazes’ / ‘perspectives’)
- the ‘moire effect’ of multiple perspectives colliding
- multi-scale
- multi-temporal: not just representing linear time but circular
time, loops, repetition, expansion and compression of time, branching,
etc.
WHY
Do we need to rethink maps?
Global GIS-based cartography universalizes the worldmap, what is left
out? For whom do we rethink maps?
Multiple dimensions of experience: temporal qualities like velocity,
flows (actions & attractions), scales that would help in inscribing and
empowering individual trajectories and navigation.
We live in a ‘pam’ world, but have global/digital representational
structures that perpetuate a certain limited idea of the world driven by
specific interests (e.g. military, logistic).
Example: movement of migrations (e.g. through Calais to the UK),
important to be recorded, but perhaps reveals people who do not want to be
revealed. also,their speed makes them visible.
also: dominant discourse is that migrants are in movement, but the
perspective of movement is also strategic - movement is understood in
relation to something still, that is a tactical imaginary
we are doing this because it may help us to
- be visible & invisible
- co-determine our orientations & movement
HOW
Focus on cartography as a process, do we call it a map?
A map that is constantly rewritten.
As a spec, what are the dimensions of the pam?
A map that integrates the individual
how can we represent velocity? how can we represent ‘attraction’? as
‘attraction’ or ‘elevation’?
we are specifying a new pam of:
flows co-constituted space and action acts / actions / activities/tactics
- stopping an action ends one flows/actions, but potentially
starts other flows/actions
- atomic actions are assembled/related into flows
- dissolving - dissolving flows, and self
- e.g.:
- - stop the train
- - get in the train
-
- A high level activity could be introduced as in:
- - Riding a flow
-
velocity/multiple speeds/velocity by attraction approaching degrees of stillness
- passive / active stillness
plural in the reference point: not one vanishing point, but havingmultiple vanishing points, there is no horizon and no more perspective
possible
multidimensionality (multiple 'gazes' / 'perspectives') the 'moire effect' of multiple perspectives colliding multi-scale, also in perceptions of life
(Peggy’s consulting)
Circularity | Orientation
Inclination | slope
Gaze:
the association or site scale would be part of it a feeling, an imagination a reaction to the phenomenon how you position yourself in a distributed network of actions,velocities
What is resolution?
Maybe we need to accept that the higher the velocity, the harder it is to
identify where we are
which enables the description of new actions:
stop flow: example: stop train that should be moving
Goals
we are doing this because it may help us to
- be present
- co-determine our orientation
the committee still needs to decide on whether there will be
- - coordinates
- - techniques of measurement or units of measurement and if so what
are desirable units of measurement
- - orientation
- - denominations
- - common standards
- - specs
-
challenges:
- the committee is not sure if the expression of the map should be in
- images: i see myself in water, it is either water or black stuff
- emotions: like the high frequency trade signal as a sort of weight
above our heads
- bodies: loss or finding of your (unintuitive) reference point,
between two (or more) forces, being plural in the reference point
-
- what does it mean to look at this world so that we can start
describing
- looking come first?
instructions for escaping the pam:
…
the flow of stillness
r: how can you perceive flow when you are in it?
j: i think you can
p: yesterday, i was thinking of creating a map, look at the map, and as
much as you zoom it, you see it flow by the natural rotation of the earth
you see the globe still from above, and the more you zoom, you look at
the moon with binoculars, you zoom to something, you are zooming too much,
in fact it is moving
to be able to have the same impression in a map to be naturally stable
p: a component of the gaze would be the feeling of its motion
s: is it a parameter
p: it would be the result of it
j: it is what it is made off, the feeling of this motion
s: with flow, counter flow
p: the feeling of motion is a property of the descriptions of the objects
we can have in this system/world/spec
we are making a decision to align with capitalist ideas of ‘flows’,
things have to keep moving to maintain value
capital flows are 1 type of flow, to be accelerated however possible..
p: we started with a strong point about stillness
perhaps there is a power in stillness because it disrupts flows and
logistics?
flows in rivers pre-exist capital, but attract capital because of their
accelerative possibilities
the whole focus on flows is to be able to block them? … or to jam,
stretch, and find where it bucks … ‘flow’ sounds, from a distance,
resembles ‘flaw’
we talk about flows, but also we can map points of entry and actions upon
them, to liberate or not act on flows? what is missing in terms of
relationships that would enable more active orientations and potential to
act with these flows
example: to stop the train, to be able to ride this flow… an action
might modify the flow..
what kind of pam would allow flows to be taken, also diverted,
connected..
s: the colonial infrastructures created/emphasized specific flows, or
Roman city - road building, that enabled Rome to be counterconquered
r: looking at how objects arrived in museums in France from Lebanon,
different routes that were taken
- when you are gazing
are we flowing or not when we are looking at flows?
vertical_gaze
- is it composable
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in_relation_gaze
flow_gaze
wave_gaze
n_gaze
gaze(parameter gaze)
gaze: vertical, wave, peripheral, sailor gaze
gaze you have on a boat, the horizon is not important but the sides
Example pams
Amélie
New York Times, ice flow antarctica
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Rajwat
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Pierre Marchand
+32 484 184 435
https://www.atelier-cartographique.be
