Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts

09 November 2010

Service Design















Service Design: “Service design addresses the functionality and form of services from the perspective of clients. It aims to ensure that service interfaces are useful, usable, and desirable from the client’s point of view and effective, efficient, and distinctive from the supplier’s point of view.”

"Developing more sustainable societies will require getting the increasing urbanization of global populations right. Cities, because of their density, afford substantial eco-efficiencies. However, as a result of their ill-considered 20th century development, cities are yet to deliver on that promise. So cities need to be significantly, and rapidly, retrofitted."

"Some examples of their deliverables are: service assessment, needs analysis, service blueprint, customer journey maps, ethnographic studies, concept sketches, mock-ups, feasibility study, business plan, communication strategies, etc.


Moreover, as described by Joe Heapy from Engine in an article called “Make Yourself Useful,” designers are working more and more within organizations to transform their innovation practices and organizational models. In this case, the design deliverables are changing from finished design ‘products’ to ‘knowledge transfer’ activities such as the formalization of innovation processes, pilot projects, training sessions or design toolkits."

24 October 2010

Underdome

















Underdome:  a project that identifies a range of positions on energy and public life and assigns to each a corresponding architectural icon.

"The guide’s taxonomy covers the political, spatial, and cultural dimensions of energy, and revolves around four main topics: “Power” asks how governments, corporations, organizations and individuals have the potential to restructure energy performance. “Territory” asks how energy transforms and is transformed by the changing networks of today’s metropolis. “Lifestyle” asks what kind of norms and behavior energy performance schemes imagine. And lastly, “Risk,” as a kind of meta-category that cuts across these other fields, asks how we weigh priorities among a diverse set of interests and contingencies."

interview here

Mapping your path






















In celebration of the 106th birthday of New York Cities subway system, The New York Times posted a great interactive website that asks people to create their own maps of how they get around using the Subway system. Above, Milton Glaser's own "mental map" of NYC.

08 October 2010

Tektonomastics
















Tektonomastics:  “tekto-” — Greek for “building” — with “onomastics” — the study of the history and origin of proper names.

Great project in New York that is identifying residential buildings bringing to light a forgotten landscape, a new digital historical record and simply as a means of getting to know your hood.

Urban Omnibus article link


12 April 2010

Google Public Data
















Great new access to data and mapping.
Leave it to Google:
"Data visualizations for a changing world: The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings."

26 January 2010

MADE IN ____ & ____ & ____ ...















Ever wonder what "Made in China" really means? This well researched site, Source Map, documents the constuction and movement of all the materials used to make some of the common products you probably are using right now. Great supply chain mappings adds to the visual research.

21 January 2010

The Counterfeit Triangle














New York's Street of Schemes
 By ALEX KALMAN and LOLA SINREICH
The New York Times

16 June 2009

Mapping the Buzz












Mapping the Cultural Buzz, by Melena Ryzik

"The research, presented in late March at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, locates hot spots based on the frequency and draw of cultural happenings: film and television screenings, concerts, fashion shows, gallery and theater openings. The buzziest areas in New York, it finds, are around Lincoln and Rockefeller Centers, and down Broadway from Times Square into SoHo. In Los Angeles the cool stuff happens in Beverly Hills and Hollywood, along the Sunset Strip, not in trendy Silver Lake or Echo Park.

The aim of the study, called “The Geography of Buzz,” said Elizabeth Currid, one of its authors, was “to be able to quantify and understand, visually and spatially, how this creative cultural scene really worked.”"

22 March 2009

Narco-Tour Destination













For Some Taxi Drivers, a Different Kind of Traffic by Marc Lacey
Mazatlán Journal

Travel and tourism offers the rare opportunity to see a location for the first time, risking the attempt of creating your reality of the place through the first set of steps, movements and experiences.

Your perception is the place is framed by what you do, where you go...the honeymooner in Cancun's has an experience much different from the volunteer environmental activist, for example.

These experiences can literally map the identity of a place...
as these examples illustrate.

Reality Tours
$3.95 Star Map












related articles:
Gadling

24 February 2009

Anamorphosis Mapping: Maps in Time




















Map of Europe based on rail travel distance in time.
Spiekermann, K. and M. Wegener. 1996.

















Tube Map based on time

other maps:
World Mapper