Some time this year, the scale of the world’s urban-rural population will tip in the direction of urban. That means that for the first time EVER, this world will have more people living in cities than in the countryside. What does this mean for you? For me? Us? All of humanity?
This issue is especially important given the fact that the person who tips the scale will likely be of color, poor and from the global “south.” A new baby born in a slum … A peasant farmer who sets up a makeshift shack in the nearest big city … One more wide-eyed young person drawn to the glittering city lights in hope of opportunity and just maybe, prosperity.
Do our cities measure up to this hope? How well do they re-distribute prosperity? How can they truly be places of opportunity?
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Djordje Joksimovic // May 23, 2008 at 3:21 pm |
Hello Chris,
Found your website by searching the web…
I have a project that’s about cities. Here is a bit about the White House Project.
The WHP project brings photography, architecture and design into a distinctive fusion of analytical socio-geographical mapping of the city, focusing on details and aesthetics of the image making – setting the trend of the city.
On a deeper note the project celebrates design as an experience and architecture, in a set environment, as an interactive part of everyday life.
The WHP project combines many different mediums to deliver information, experience and excitement – a tale of one city. It creates a graphical representation between two destinations in a single image.
Moreover, working with digital photography and computer graphics the author works on capturing the essence of the city in its many forms, changing hues of the weather at different times of the day.
Each of these 10 themes in project, „Absence“, „Total War I“ , „Olympic landscape“, „Total war II“, „Take a breath“, „Was I bored“?, „Camping out“, „More formal“, „Constant playground“, and „Untitled public memory“ capture different time interval of the city’s colourful life span with no set criteria for intervention.
Đorđe Joksimović defines a new level of visual expression through the concept itself.
The WHP project was primarily conducted in 2003 to inspire people to find out about the city they live in… but not just the city, to find out more about themselves.
Influences of the cities he lived and worked in, from London, Melbourne, Berlin, Barcelona to Valencia are present in his work, that reflects an interaction between people and environment.
This project reassembles and at the same time combines different aspects of author’s personality, tendencies, aspirations. Photography, music, design, architecture; he is using all this media to communicate.
“Communication is a priority. Perception is everytihing. Design is the key.”
Few weeks ago i had second exhibition about this project which was part of Belgrade Design Week.
Here are links to TV interviews:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OTq7KySwqfw
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAFDnqc37U&feature=related
It would be good if you can feature it on your site.
Regards
Djordje
ciudadanaglobal // May 31, 2008 at 2:44 am |
Honestly … Your project looks and suonds interesting but it’s a little over my head. I left the comment up for the benefit of people who are more intellectually sophisticated than I … But the best I can do is to ask if you have ever checked out the SenseMaker Suite software from Cognitive Edge. I realize your pursuits are purely artistic, but this software is a great way to turn all kinds of lived experiences into rich quantitative information. It identifies patterns and correlations that the human mind could never imagine. Their website is:
http://www.sensemaker-suite.com/
It may be worth a look.