Ideation¶
For these 2 months of personal research, I will focus on the concepts of territories around the fablab in Brussels. After some research, I was able to note that this territory is extremely rich.
I will be able to understand the notions of 'rhizome' and therefore sharing with the inhabitants as my experimentation progresses later on.
I have already spotted sources like QGIX, OpenstreetView, https://datastore.brussels/web/map
References¶
Here are 2 references from artists using the concepts of territories and maps in their practice.
Annelys de Vet is a Belgium-based/Dutch designer, researcher, and educator . She creates participative design projects that actively engage in social and political struggles. She initiated the publishing 'Subjective Editions', facilitating workshops that map regions from the inside out by people themselves.
His studio SJG designs books, maps, typefaces, spatial installations and digital information environments for publishers. Here is a book of Bioregional Design Practices by Atelier LUMA designs by his company.
Images: Joost Groteus
Embroidered quarters. It is an invitation to exchange and create large-format textile spaces mixing scientific geography and sensitive, poetic mapping, to talk about oneself, our places, links and needs.
WHERE¶
GREENFABRIC 33 Rue JB Baeck 1190 FOREST R83C+8R 342008758 @50.803264,4.322291,16.97z UTC+01:01
I used data.brussels and get only screenshots images. I frame it and selected few specifications:
Soil polution / Land use / Ecologycal network / land registry / urban heat island / vegetation cover / road noise / altitude / transportation system / Rail noise / Level lines / Flooding 2019 and Lack of public green spaces
I searched for maps to extract datas.
I still have to explore the possibilities. I also discovered several opensource services like QGIX and OpenStreetMap but it’s a new technological universe to explore if afterwards I wish to push the research towards realistic geographical precision.
WHAT¶
Starting from what I know, the museum, the exhibition for the general public, I transpose these museal notions to apply them to the notion of PLACE.
Following the presentation in December, I took the time to feel my desires for the months to come. I wanted to move away from a mercantile approach to go towards a more artistic path. I must then reduce my scope of actions, always around the notion of territory.
I orient my research towards three processes:
1- With the Kniterate, using these databases to present the territory around the GreenFabric in jacquard, and once the machine and software are in place, using the data as a source of code and develop in-depth tests/, making reliefs.1
2- Sourcing materials to be recycled in each zone by walking and meeting people, merchants, and professionals. Creating a biomaterial per area. To facilitate the task and link the territories around us, the square in the center representing the Greenfabric will be 100% textile, then, concentrically, textile + recovery, with decreasing textile concentration.
3- Using the embroidery machine to generate cards with patterns. Taking over the defined areas and exploit their graphic specificities as patterns.
HOW¶
I’ve drawn an diagramm to show you all processes and links between thoses.
