Keller Easterling lecture: Disposition

check out the lecture linked below for direct references to Ranciere, dissensus, and other topics that may pertain to LATENT CITY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHYMAyuzSyk

why we tin....

thoughts for the studio

Toxic Water City: Data Relationship Terrain

Mary and I are investigating what a neighborhood line encompasses in terms of how and why these neighborhood lines were initially derived. The lines that mark what constitutes as neighborhood seemingly follow the rail line, in which it seems often the case that neither neighborhood on either side wishes to claim it as part of its own identity. Our GIS mapping wishes to discover latency in forcing the TINS of like height values across the line to discover new type of neighborhoods through various means of selecting and z-value alterations, and to eventually encourage the rail line's engagement in a new type of urban strategy.

Toxic Water City

The above image depicts two distinct terrains of the relationship between Area Hydrography and Area Hydrography parcels, both infused with census economic data. Peaks and valleys are areas around Syracuse that are connected to water bodies and have high/low populations. We've noticed that the terrain produced adheres to the boundaries of the water bodies' and land parcels' shapes, but that the form and slope of the terrain is highly dependent on the order in which the features are added.

For example, the differences between the two above terrains is as follows:

1. Area Hydro Parcel feature + Area Hydro feature = TIN A (left)

2. Area Hydro feature + Area Hydro Parcel Feature = TIN B (right)

Both terrains contain the same data, yet there are differences that range from minute to undeniably apparent. Elle and I will continue to investigate...

Toxic Water City

Elle and I have been working almost exclusively on how isolated sets of census data manifest their relationship to other sets of data. The above map is an example of these sets before "creating" a terrain of their relationships; it impresses fragmentation and discontinuity, but also areas of overlap.