travelCASE

The travel case is a tool to collect, organize and decipher elements taken away from different sites and composed into one container. As a case carried around during site studies and collection, the work of the project composes itself in real time through a series of collection actions rather than distinguishing them site by site. It is then a toolbox for the thesis to operate through its program of defining site and narrative. This is the first move of thesis, a collector for the site. From here a narrative will be created overlapping the stories and then new artifacts will be created reflecting each site through the new perspective of the author.

Labeling each portion of the case as a verb for collecting, the case asks for action to insert, arrange and collect. It then forces the user to utilize the case with multiple perspectives rather than one mode of collection.

Fairy Doors

These small doors exist all around Ann Arbor, with a tale to go with them. These small scale doors appear as another world living within our own local community. We engage in it as if it were real, and they do physically exist. So when does a fictional intervention begin to play out in our real lives?

Program and Pragmatics

Rhetorical modes: Patterns of Organization
Using tropes to disguise the thing and talk about the relationship. By taking artifact and associations together with literary technique, reveals a new object itself. Rhetorical travelogues : capturing frames of events and artifacts as an agent to amplify the characteristic and genesis of “now”. What can we record and capture and what is fleeting or obsolete when those merge together. Can it rewrite a new story of place?

Accomplice: somebody helping wrongdoer: somebody who helps somebody else to commit a crime or misdeed

Wrongdoer: behavior considered wrong: behavior or an action that fails to conform to standards of law or morality

Law: the body or system of rules recognized by a community that are enforceable by established process

Process: a series of actions directed toward a specific aim, a series of natural occurrences that produce change or development

Identity, culture, tone
An accomplice because it is a specific perspective to frame the argument of new realities through parallel narratives. Possibly as an unknown accomplice, conspiracy or protege. By exploiting them and capturing an unknown voice it can not be paranoid by the outcome of the manipulations of voice.


As a feedback between a series of clients as accomplices:

One that gives (gets)

One that reacts (recieves)

One that analyzes (projects)

One that reformats (critiques)

One that gets (gives)

and loops back again...

Patterns, time, social
Because the sites have difference associations at different times it is about plucking details that may or may not reveal themselves. Time then can not act quantitative in the way each of these sites have come about today. Its an overlapping of histories.To see the past traces and overlap them out of sequence with the present and projected futures based on a new classification of criteria other than terrain vague. It can start to project new possibilities in the sites. Redux from the approach of asking what it was in the first place. These feedbacks can then inform a new hierarchy of what takes stage and how to redux based on these new values.

What then are you acting:

With?

For?

Against?

Through?

What is the reaction to the programmatic actions?

Tone?

Revelation?

Physical moves forward the action of the work and word through tangible objects. Starts to see moves through all details of a day rather than a specific ritual.
Method of working: Conscious Material and Mind
Working at a scale of creation, yet not always at one to one removes the author from the direct relationship or infact questions the direct relationship.

Space and Case

Georges Perec's book Species of Spaces and Other Pieces begins with a series of space defining terms. Through out the book he utilizes language as a medium of crafting an argument. I took this as a first exercise of exploring "____Case".

Don't Believe Billy

In a break in his career with excess downtime, Bill Geerhart began to write letters posing as his inner child "Billy". He wrote to numerous people and groups asking simple but relevant questions in the voice of a child. These letters have been published in Little Billy's Letters: An Incorrigible Inner Child's Correspondence with the Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Bewildered.  Here is one letter and response:

makes you wonder how far an author can go...


thanks http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/10/little-billys-letter.html

Literary Tropes

Sometimes things are so obvious you can't see them. When I was told to mind my tendencies to figure out what I might be interested in for thesis and have the project naturally occur from there, I only looked at projects I worked or speculated on. One of the major decisions defining my coming years was the launching of an office and then of course naming it. 

Synecdoche (si-NEK-duh-kee), while possibly not the best name to have people pronounce or help spread the word, defines our work so well. A work of simultaneous understanding, in how we work and what we work on. So its seems I've always been a bit more drawn to the connection of literary and architectural practice than I thought.

6 Literary Tropes

Metonymy

Irony

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Antanclasis

Allegory

Shifting Scenes

Monumental shifts in traditional frameworks of thought and theory lead to the creation of new paradigms.  Operating across history, architectural periods, and text our work questions reality and fiction.  The scale moves from the most concrete reality of the existence of a site to the shift in the author’s role in (re)defining the site, to the representation of a fictional narrative through image or text.  Lines connect from the reality-fiction scale to methods of narrative and historical moments.  When these lines intersect a fictional text is generated which operates in the narrative method and time period being traced.  The map then sets up two types of operations, one revealing the placement of interests within the contexts of each other and multi disciplinary practice. The orbs reveal new possibilities through unexpected overlaps and new ways of thinking through a combination of practices.

Within the map, we have cited each of our own resources and how they tie to the overarching theme of the map. Each color notates each thesis within the over all map, red - Lisa Sauve and yellow - Jessica Mattson. This map was created by linking together arguments from two of the thesis. The tracing of history (Jessica) and the style of the narrative (Lisa). At these intersecting links a new mode of narrative is generated as an example how how the thesis might play out. A work in progress...