The Idea
I think that finally, after a hard process I have something that I dare to call an IDEA. Yesterday when thinking and thinking about the idea of having access to the privacy of places and being pretty convinced that this is something that I would like to explore as a topic, I went for a walk and I thought:
- I could display projections in the buildings facades showing what is going on inside.
- Or, I could design and adventure to get that strangers invite people to their houses to have dinner and tell them “secret stories”.
- I also could challenge people to violate the law and try to find the way o getting into private places to discover some of the “secret of the city”.
- Or create a tour where you have to follow a person until you discover something interesting.
But what I am going to do with that and how I am I going to do it?
Then, when thinking of how ambitious I was being with the idea of having huge projections over Manhattan buildings facades to make private lives public, and also let people to interact with them, I move my eyes closer to the ground and I found an interesting mailbox that was obviously more approachable than a façade and, why not more private, prohibited and intriguing.
Then I had the idea of using mail boxes as a platform to let people get into the privacy of a city and explore it through that experience. I found some interesting analogies between private building and mailboxes: their facades are very familiar to us and totally public. We can see them, touch them and even take pictures and videotape them but we can not see what is inside.
I also found something very interesting about mal boxing in the US. In Colombia the mail service is a disaster and, of course we do not have mailboxes on the streets. When you send as letter by the regular mail you never know if the addressee is going to receive it so people do not trust in mail as they do here. Here mail boxes are every where, some times you can see more mail boxes than public phones and, they are exposed to every one. (If we had mail boxes in Colombia with lost of important information, and especially checks and money orders on them I am almost sure that the vandals would work hard in order to do whet should not be done.)
I see them as a symbol or representation of something very public and accessible but on the other hand very private and prohibited::: Inside a mailbox are people private lives ::: It could be also seen as a kind of “confession place” where everyone deposit his privacy and is sure that just the right persons is going to have access to it. I also liked how in a mailbox the idea of traveling is involved. I like the idea of privacy and secrets of people all mixed together, traveling through the city in order to rich its final destination.
It also brings about the questions of how could I create a relation between emails and mailboxes to design an experience for travelers?
Ok, but going back to the core idea of foster people to get into the privacy I will try to formulated my new (more specific) research questions related to the idea of how to create alterative ways for people when exploring public spaces with out make them feel overwhelmed by thousand of instructions.
1) I want to explore the idea of how to create an experience for people to allow them to “get into the private and prohibited” of a city and get more enriched, and more self- exploratory, experiences. I want to make people to discover by them selves.
Because…
a) I want to find out if we can have deeper experiences looking and spying at the “real life” of a city than following the instructions of a tourist guide.
b) I want to find out how the city itself and its “every day life objects” can be used as interactive platforms to design alterative experiences” for tourist and no locals.
To summarize or to repit myself again and again:
I am working on the idea of creating a “tourist experiences” for people which involves having to get into the privacy (people life and private spaces) to have an enriched experience in the city. So far the mailboxes seems to be a good alterative to play with this ideas.
... Also keep thinking about how to use buildings facades.
... And telephones? Public devices that allow people to have private conversations.
Things to look at
Shopie Calle
The rear window
Following
Watched and Measured
- I could display projections in the buildings facades showing what is going on inside.
- Or, I could design and adventure to get that strangers invite people to their houses to have dinner and tell them “secret stories”.
- I also could challenge people to violate the law and try to find the way o getting into private places to discover some of the “secret of the city”.
- Or create a tour where you have to follow a person until you discover something interesting.
But what I am going to do with that and how I am I going to do it?
Then, when thinking of how ambitious I was being with the idea of having huge projections over Manhattan buildings facades to make private lives public, and also let people to interact with them, I move my eyes closer to the ground and I found an interesting mailbox that was obviously more approachable than a façade and, why not more private, prohibited and intriguing.
Then I had the idea of using mail boxes as a platform to let people get into the privacy of a city and explore it through that experience. I found some interesting analogies between private building and mailboxes: their facades are very familiar to us and totally public. We can see them, touch them and even take pictures and videotape them but we can not see what is inside.
I also found something very interesting about mal boxing in the US. In Colombia the mail service is a disaster and, of course we do not have mailboxes on the streets. When you send as letter by the regular mail you never know if the addressee is going to receive it so people do not trust in mail as they do here. Here mail boxes are every where, some times you can see more mail boxes than public phones and, they are exposed to every one. (If we had mail boxes in Colombia with lost of important information, and especially checks and money orders on them I am almost sure that the vandals would work hard in order to do whet should not be done.)
I see them as a symbol or representation of something very public and accessible but on the other hand very private and prohibited::: Inside a mailbox are people private lives ::: It could be also seen as a kind of “confession place” where everyone deposit his privacy and is sure that just the right persons is going to have access to it. I also liked how in a mailbox the idea of traveling is involved. I like the idea of privacy and secrets of people all mixed together, traveling through the city in order to rich its final destination.
It also brings about the questions of how could I create a relation between emails and mailboxes to design an experience for travelers?
Ok, but going back to the core idea of foster people to get into the privacy I will try to formulated my new (more specific) research questions related to the idea of how to create alterative ways for people when exploring public spaces with out make them feel overwhelmed by thousand of instructions.
1) I want to explore the idea of how to create an experience for people to allow them to “get into the private and prohibited” of a city and get more enriched, and more self- exploratory, experiences. I want to make people to discover by them selves.
Because…
a) I want to find out if we can have deeper experiences looking and spying at the “real life” of a city than following the instructions of a tourist guide.
b) I want to find out how the city itself and its “every day life objects” can be used as interactive platforms to design alterative experiences” for tourist and no locals.
To summarize or to repit myself again and again:
I am working on the idea of creating a “tourist experiences” for people which involves having to get into the privacy (people life and private spaces) to have an enriched experience in the city. So far the mailboxes seems to be a good alterative to play with this ideas.
... Also keep thinking about how to use buildings facades.
... And telephones? Public devices that allow people to have private conversations.
Things to look at
Shopie Calle
The rear window
Following
Watched and Measured
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