Last weekend we set forth on a snowy, sleety, and cold day to find sites that could house all of our design processes for the next 8 months. We hoped that we would stumble upon the perfect settings that could serve as charismatic showcases for all of the experiential/”thick”/etc inventory, discovery, and design that we wish to experiment with for this project. Continue reading “A Note On Finding Site(s)”
Seeing Space in Spectrograms
Spectrograms are pretty cool. They’re handy tools to lend eyes to ears, and give a glimpse into what strange textures exist in the world of sound. In this case, everybody’s favorite sound of sirens leaves behind the dominant signature in the spectrogram. But what makes spectrograms even more useful is how they pick up an array of idiosyncrasies within a recorded scene. Check out the diagram below to see what else exists in the cacophonous 8 second sound sample. Continue reading “Seeing Space in Spectrograms”
Process Log: Here We Go!
Two landscape architecture students embark on a year of exploring, wild experimenting, analyzing, representing, recording, mapping, reading, writing, listening, and attempting to better understand how the newest and oldest technologies might thicken our understanding of sites, of people, and of how to connect the two.