“The research explores night urban landscape as a sensitive and cognitive relationship between people and their environment. The project focuses on the aesthetical process of identification of citizenship with their territory to emphasize the role of night in the definition of urban landscape –as the framework for leisure and socialization.

We believe that the opportunity to reformulate the basis of nightscape design involves the construction of a valid representation of itself. atNight aims to build interpretative cartographies of nightscape main assets in order to create a new critical model to share, discuss and develop ideas about nightscapes transformation.”

The access to data visualization allows a comprehensible way is useful to understand some issues that affects our cities as efficiency, transportation, and flows, among others.

atnight 1280×720 from atnightmaps on Vimeo.

The project is focused on the visual analysis of Barcelona, based on testing the potential of representation techniques of the city image by working on a night cartography. In this case, the aerial view reflects a world which is revealed in this extensive visual panorama of the city that has been drawn from the previous data assigning a sphere of influence to each point, is an organic interdependency between physical and visual structure of the city.

The interactions and active use of social networks like twitter, flickr and instagram, allows the team to collect more data in an open way. On the web-site of atNight you can explore the collected data and also follow the project on twitter for more info: @atnightmaps

—Ethel Baraona Pohl, editor.

More info: atNight and we also recommend this article on MAS Context.

The project “Bloc in Progress” by Capsa aims to archive and display the notepads of artists in different contexts, including drawings by of painters, comic books of artist and sculptors, draft plans of designers, handmade corrections of poets and writers, notes made by musicians on their scores and architects drawings, among others. They describe the digital archive with the following words:

“The website aims to highlight the moment before the artist deems his/her work to be complete, with all the imperfections and nuances it involves.”

Beniamino Servino recently wrote on his book Monumental Need, “There is an assonance between the representation of need and the place of the representation. Between the script [of a play] and the stage. Between the spoken language and the architectural language.” That’s why it is important that this kind of archives exist, because they remind us about this differences, about the importance of how a thought is born, it doesn’t matter if it’s on a notebook or in a napkin. As Raimund Abraham also wrote, “my drawings are real and the are constructed not designed”.

Patum 01. Udeu

Llibreta de treball [2011]. Isabel Banal i Xifré

Andrés Galeano

At the end, we all have grown up surrounded by papers, drawings and words. The wrinkles we can see in the papers are a reflection of time, of life itself. We want to end with a quote taken from the web-site of the symposium Intersections: Architecture and Poetry.

‘We cover the universe with drawings we have lived’
—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1958.

—Ethel Baraona Pohl, editor.
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For more info, please visit CAPS.A. All images taken from Bloc in Progress.

>> Header caption: “Apunts per a una videoinstal·lació perdua” [1991-2011] by Nora Ancarola.