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this is a sketch for a website that would allow users to visualize the most current location of the city center. the site contains a map of madrid where people can pinpoint a series of locations that reflect their preferences and activity in the city. those points will be used first to calculate the […]

images of an intervention in the city

so far all taxi drivers have dropped me off at a plaza when asked to take me to the center: plaza de colón, plaza de puerta cerrada, plaza de españa, plaza de castilla. it makes me think about why the center is thought to be an open place, public, when it can also fall […]

i caught another taxi at a roundabout and we drove literally in circles until the driver figured out where to take me. he explained to me that in the past 20 or 30 years the city has grown disproportionately towards the north, and so for him the center must have also drifted in that direction. […]

once again, the driver wanted to take me to ’sol’. the ‘zero point’ is so ingrained in the collective imaginary that it seems impossible to talk about centers without people making reference to it. he then mentioned gran vía being one of the most important streets in the city, and so i asked him to […]

as soon as i mentioned the word ‘center’, the driver’s first impulse was to take me to ’sol’. i mentioned i had already visited the ‘zero point’ and would rather see the city through the eyes of people who lived and worked in madrid rather than following a predetermined route of designated tourist attractions. he […]

some photographs of all the ‘centers’ that i have been finding on my walks through the city.

this afternoon i walked out of the media lab and wandered around until i got lost. it didn’t really go that far, but it was enough to lose any reference points that might have been helpful to orient myself. i grabbed a cab and asked the driver to take me to where he thought […]

i am trying to figure out a way of creating a kind of map that would reflect people’s movement and activity throughout the city. i like the idea of analyzing the flow of passengers on the public transportation system to visualize how the concentration and dispersion of people changes throughout the day and to use […]

this morning i went to puerta del sol to find madrid’s ‘zero point’. it is supposed to be the exact location from where all highways are measured, a kind of reference point that extends to the rest of the country. i was a bit disappointed to find a kind of mosaic on the floor, something […]