Δ1: Week 1

First Triangulate Project

Studio Progress – Week 1 (Based on MAGCD UNIT 2 BINGO).

How can an image be translated into a diagram?

Can a diagram replace an image?

How can the two coexist?

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A research on how an image can be translated into a diagram. The case of Rawstorne Street, Islington – EC1V 7N.

Format
52-page BOOK, black and white, laser printed, staple bound (MAGCD UNIT 2 BINGO).

Step 1: Taking several photos of things found in this specific street. Things such as buildings, signs, etc.

Step 2: The research begins. The publication is treated as a method of research. A method that will help me explore the above questions.

Process
I have started experimenting with translating some photographs into diagrams (following the main lines of the photograph, following the size, scale, and perspective.

Then I have decided to work using a series of photographs. Placing them in a random position on a book’s spread, some questions came up; How these images are connected? What stories occur and how these can be translated into a diagram(s)?

What helped me to continue with my research is to write a short story out of the images I have previously randomly picked and placed on the spread.

Have a look at this week’s draft book

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Feedback & REFLECTION

References
Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec – Dear data
Walid Raad

Check out Year’s 1 prompt, structuring a diagram based on an everyday task.

It’s very difficult to connect the narrative with diagrams.

Without text, the diagrams look more like illustrations.

What makes a diagram, diagram?
SYSTEM – FUNCTION – DATA. It’s more practical. It’s not a visual representation (sth unseen). Instructional. Visual reduction.
They have a purpose.

If I want to combine diagrams and illustrations, I have to convince the viewers. Define the terms first.

The starting point is better not to be the story (narrative). The starting point can maybe be a series of images.
Photos, Diagrams, Illustrations, Text. Work separately on these (one at a time). Translate the same thing.

TURN THE IMAGE INTO DATA!
DATA: pixels, scale, size, space, material.

LIMITATIONS!
Decisions.

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For the next week
Identify a new reference and bring it. How does the reference influence your practice?

+ hand in a piece of text (writing) about the project.