Practical Methods Minor Project

Jean Demars and Felix Dragan

This project aims at working with asylum seekers arriving to London and having to travel and operate through a space that is completely foreign to them, physically as well as institutionally. This will involve working closely with a group, which will define the content through personal experiences, at times showing hidden structures or “wrong” paths.
The project has gone in the direction of a web-platform which could be used as community news and communication, as well as offering different services such as free-rider post, anonymous denunciation board, image/sound repository, events advertisement and will include a feedback section in relation to itself.

Project Resources:

- minor project PROPOSAL

- minor project PLAN

I'm keeping an online journal of my work on the telephony projects.

This will describe my workings and whatever random links and assosciations i might make along the way.

This is in no way an expression of anybody's opinion other than my own.

You can find it here: here.

Cheery Bye :)

In the spirit of openness... :)

The Lamp Tomato

A discourse about the modes the public opinions/feedbacks are being (automatically) processed for commercial and political purposes.

Abstract

Nowadays moderated systems (usually found on newspapers websites) or (very likely) internal software tools of different commercial companies or institutions take peoples' feedbacks on their products as a raw material of further processing.
This helps them to automatize the internalisation of these opinions so that can work out how to shape their policies of production and/or 'education' of the customer.

I saw this exhibition and came across this cool video. It is titled "The Dinner table" by Terry Flaxton. The artist set up an empty dinner table and chairs and projected a video of people eating on the table (but only the hands) along with the sound. I think this sounds like one of the projects that we want to do.

I detailed my research of the official and unofficial media in the building to just the ones I found in the large and small pools.
Here is the result (it is different from the last one as some signs were already taken off)