23.3.05
Cracking the Urban Cheat Code
Psychogeography is by definition a subjective activity, but by mapping the area collaboratively & afterwards aggregating the results it is possible to attain an accurate bolagram (boundary language) of the area. Because the urban territory can be defined by it's distinctions, mapping the boundaries of these distinctions simultaneously implies that by studying the boundaries one is studying the city as a whole.
What is needed in order to be able to combine individual psychogeographical accounts into a psychogeogram is a protocol. This protocol can take different forms: a graphic notation system, a psychogeographical mark-up language or a system of metadata connected to a signifier of a space like street names, position in an arbitrary grid or GPS-coordinates(3); something more like XML than HTML. The latter option seems most worthwhile as it means compiling a dataset; enabling the root-psychogeographer to pump the resulting data into different soft & walkware applications & thus making it fairly easy to analyse it from many angles & compare cities with one another.
Cracking the Urban Cheat Code
What is needed in order to be able to combine individual psychogeographical accounts into a psychogeogram is a protocol. This protocol can take different forms: a graphic notation system, a psychogeographical mark-up language or a system of metadata connected to a signifier of a space like street names, position in an arbitrary grid or GPS-coordinates(3); something more like XML than HTML. The latter option seems most worthwhile as it means compiling a dataset; enabling the root-psychogeographer to pump the resulting data into different soft & walkware applications & thus making it fairly easy to analyse it from many angles & compare cities with one another.
Cracking the Urban Cheat Code
# posted by alvaro @ 2:38 p. m. 
