Group assignment: Map a location as precisely as possible considering social dynamics as well as physical attributes
Locate a space that you will analyse and observe, through writing, logging and visual documentation you will create data and vocabulary necessary for the weeks to come. Here are some guidelines to help you on your way.

Your own position in the space:
– What do you see?
– How do you move?
– How does your body feel?

Other people:
– Who is involved?
– Who are the different groups?
– How do they interact?
– What characteristics do they have?
– What are their body movement and orientation?
– How are they spatially organised?

Setting:
– What does define the space?
– Which architecture and objects are involved?
– What are the details, such as colour codes, materials, temperature, smells etc..?
– For who the space is it designed?
– How does the design of the space privileges and/or excludes certain social relations?

Rules:
– What are the rules of the places and how are they prescribed?
– Are they visible or invisible?
– How is the space socially negotiated?
– What are the norms, values and codes that underpin the forms of sociality happening in the space?
– How do notions of space, place, and scale interplay in this context with issues of race, gender, and class?

P3 Cultural Diversity / 3.1 / 2020

Delivery of the group Mapping: 1st of October

On this day you will present with your group, the findings of your mapping both visually and verbally. The mapping doesn’t have to be one image or text, it can be a video work, a performance, an actual map, a photo series – whatever fits the skills and mode of research of your group and where you can find a fruitful collaboration between you.

Dummy

This week you will also start a HotGlue page with your group, where you will log and document your research throughout this term. Make a page or section per student of the group on your HotGlue page so we can see what your part is in the project over the term.

Group research

Assignment

First meeting

we got together via an online call to discuss our first interests: online culture, habits of going online and what platforms to use, youtube rabbitholes. We also visisted some youtube channels as well which was a fun experience, we were visiting the site seperately but could hear eachothers reactions.

Feedback Yinyin

Our ideas and questions

Don't get lost into the rabbitholes of specific interests, this can become a cloudy and subjective research and not give a clear insight of how the platform works as a space.

look at the platform as a mirrored projection and ask some researchable questions like:
How do the recommendation work?
How do comments work and possibly create a toxic environment?
How does the platform relate to your body?

Engage with the platfom instead of the subject.

Mapping is like glasses to see throught the platform and teach others whats behind this platform.

Look at: tutorials, policies, recommendation, predictive algorithm, manipluation

These things make us se the platfomr in a particular way.

When do we go to youtube? Entertainment, comfort,learning... what spaces are they to you and at what time? What kind of role does youtube have for you?

Sharan: How does a commentsection work and becomes a toxic or a safe space? As all the comment sections are part of the same platform/space and work via the same structure and algorithms but create different spaces whithin youtube.

I see it as these rooms that are all a part of the same building, all the interactions within these rooms follow the exact same rules but in some rooms people are helping and comforting eachother and in the next room people are in a bloody fight.

Our online mapping experiences

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relevant links to this question

Carolina:
Use the metaphor of spectacles literally; create a way of looking at this platform. Maybe speculative.

Michelle:
I'm more of a tactile, surface-level designer. Create a tour or a virtual building with rooms and spoken comments you have to endure.

Kristy:
The combination of rooms and glasses. You go into one space and choose what kind of glasses to put on. With what kind of intentions do you go to these spaces? With what mood do you enter youtube?

Recreating the space of how youtube could be

Carolina: create different type of glasses depending on the person, mood, circumstances, age, demographic etc.

notes by Carolina from the group call 25/09/2020

notes by Carolina from the feedback call 24/09/2020

Our approach

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We made a plan on how to approach the platform we're going to investigate and map.
We will map one objective layer of, functional regulations that set the rules of the space called youtube. And three layers that can change the experience of visiting the space and how you navigate and interact with the space: hate, admiration and a childrens point of view.

hate reading