4G Urbanism
Island
Network Mapping
Project Notes
Project Type:
Design Research
Date:
June 2016
Project Tags:
2016, Research, Datavis, Mapping,
This
work was intended to explore local connectivity as a topographic gradient
across the Islands urban form; a non-physical data-scape that connects between
the digital, physical and social realms while operating at both the local and
hyper global scales. Helping to make observations about mobile phones a
sensible devices that condense self, the world and data abouts ones place in
that world.
Based on field recording using opensource mobile applications to record 4G latency and network strength, design outputs were intended to celebrate both the technical process of collecting data but also the envisioned spatial results of this unseen network, its potential affect on island urbanisation and social connectivity. As well as provided a basis to speculate how part of this network could be reappropriated to co-develop climate adaptation networks through citizen science and inter island action.
Model: Maafushi Island, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives
Laser cut bathy-topo model with 3D printed spatialised network mesh demonstrating network strength. Additional layers of affiliated urban features, communication nodes and local Wi-Fi networks.
Based on field recording using opensource mobile applications to record 4G latency and network strength, design outputs were intended to celebrate both the technical process of collecting data but also the envisioned spatial results of this unseen network, its potential affect on island urbanisation and social connectivity. As well as provided a basis to speculate how part of this network could be reappropriated to co-develop climate adaptation networks through citizen science and inter island action.
Model: Maafushi Island, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives
Laser cut bathy-topo model with 3D printed spatialised network mesh demonstrating network strength. Additional layers of affiliated urban features, communication nodes and local Wi-Fi networks.
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