#briefnote

[silentcatsoundworkshop]

(Briefnote)

[wiswakharman]

Final BriefNote

The Concept

 Our Big Message

Yogyakarta used to be a peaceful and comfortable city for everyone, including the pedestrian. But nowadays it is full of cars and motorcycles and congestion began to happen everywhere in the city. To analyze why do we have these terrible congestions, we tried to create a simple cycle scheme based on our experiences:

Lot of people use vehicle -> Congestion & messy parking lots -> Lack of space for pedestrian -> Not comfortable -> Walking is not fun anymore -> Pedestrian bowed out -> Pedestrian starts to use vehicle -> Congestion & messy parking lots…… and the cycle goes around.

Our big goal is to break that cycle. We want to add spaces for the pedestrian, make the walking experience as interesting as possible so that more people would be triggered to walk and be a pedestrian and in the end, make the stakeholders facilitate the pedestrian. Bring back the peaceful and comfortable Yogyakarta.

Gallery of The Walker

Gallery of The Walker is one of the facility available from the Pedestrian App, an exclusive app only for the pedestrian. We believe by creating Gallery for The Walker we could engage as many as people to be a pedestrian and measure it. The idea of the gallery is simple, to offer the pedestrian something that a vehicle can not offer, create a gallery that only a walker can enjoy by using architecture and building as the media of the gallery with mobile device application to access. What’s unique is the gallery is on the street, it’s actually an existing building which could be projected with a curated visual art piece but… the pedestrian could only see it from their camera phone/tab which install that Pedestrian App. The name Walking came from the mobile system of the sculpture that is placed in every front of the targeted building. 

 Exclusivity and the feel of being special is the thing that we want to reward the pedestrian with. For example, to enjoy the Gallery for The Walker one have to complete a walk from a sculpture to another sculpture. Where's the place for the sculpture? It could be placed anywhere but in this case we placed in front of the historical buildings, as the core of the site we chose - KM 0, Yogyakarta-. These sculptures functioned as the starting and ending point detector for the challenge. The challenge and the reward itself could vary but still leads to one goal: triggering people to be a pedestrian.

Positive Side Effects

Beside our big message, there are also several side effects that invented by this project. For example, the Pedestrian App also calculating data of its user which could be used as a survey parameter for the government thus they will know how many is the pedestrian. In the other hand, by creating Gallery for The Walker, local artist talent could be enhanced. Simply by submitting their artwork into the Pedestrian App portal and competed to be chosen based on voting system. The Gallery will also add a new colour to the city’s identity and the best thing is this system could be adapted in other country with different culture and people. It is sustain and flexible.

 The Design Process

We started this competition with understanding the briefcase. The issue about data is not really familiar for us thus each of us was trying to interpret the briefcase and discussed it together. Then we did some brainstorming using sticky notes and (a lot of) papers to gather general idea. After that, we sorted our way of thinking based on Building and Issues. Thus we asked for each of our member to deliver a complete idea consisted of the core idea, the background, the kind of data and how it will create a social impact.

Up till the midnight the brainstorming process still going on and we tried several methods such as inventing a random notions and developed it together nor write our thoughts in the mirror. Feels like need a charge of inspiration, the four of us take a ride to the heart of Yogyakarta to figure out what building and what issue is urgent and interesting to solve. After the ‘short getaway’ we tried to gather our ideas, clear up our mind and decide what are we going to do in the morning.

We conducted an interview session in the project’s site in purpose to know what is actually needed by the pedestrian and to feel the plus and the minus of the site. After the interview we concluded the need of the pedestrian and seeking government’s plan because we want it to be on the same track as the city’s vision. The following things we do is to evaluate and asking for some friend’s opinion about our idea, evaluate again and finally to ensure if each of the member’s perspective is the same: to agree with our final synthesis and complete the final product -the video and the briefnote-.

The Response

Our friend’s opinion towards our idea is fine and their suggestions been really helpful for us in developing our idea. To join this competition has been an unforgettable experience for us. It’s been really pressing, tense and fun at the same time.

Our Video Link

http://youtu.be/fqk42ed88Lo

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References:

http://krjogja.com/read/214159/pemkot-persiapkan-plaza-pedestrian-di-titik-nol.kr

http://www.designboom.com/art/moment-factory-duality-video-mapping-project/

yogyakarta.bps.go.id

http://www.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/jawa-tengah-diy-nasional/14/05/29/n6bm3m-pedestrian-titik-nol-diterapkan-lalu-lintas-dialihkan-ke-reksobayan

http://jogja.tribunnews.com/2014/01/26/pemkot-uji-coba-jalur-pedestrian-malioboro-lewat-cfd/

[screenshotsofdespair]

A Brief Note on the Topic of Submitting to Myself

As many close observers (and is there any other kind?) of Screenshots of Despair have pointed out (often by submitting screenshots!), "screenshotsofdespair submitted this to screenshotsofdespair" sometimes appears at the top of posts on this blog.

This phenomenon occurs when I edit the text of a photo submission, then publish it. (I usually try to save the submitted image to my desktop and then re-upload it with attribution when I need to make an edit, but that is not ALWAYS expedient.)

I regret this situation and take pleasure in acknowledging its absurdity.