Unit 1 : Methods of Investigation _ Week 2 & Final

-> During the first week of investigation, I found out 4-5 interesting points. Among them, the marks and doodles made by human seemed contrasting when compared to the public signs and informations, and I tried to focus comparing between individual’s informations and public informations.

But, doodles (grafitti) can be personal and made for personal records, I found out through the tutorial critics and researches that most of them in the bus station were quite meaningless.

->In this case, drawings (or writings) were covering, distorting the public signs and informations ; sort of rejecting the informations and resisting them.

-> Another sketch(draft) I had during the first investigation, was distorted public logo itself,

I thought when it will get invaluable and lost it’s information ( which is made through society ) in terms of distortion and damages.

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-> So I did couple of tests distorting the TFL logo during first week of tutorial.

( + Tutorial gave me the thoughts ruining the logo is also can be a graffiti )

-> I started to focus on mixing the first thoughts and the second one, not too much concentrating on graffiti itself, but the distortion of information and it’s flows…. etc ( also re-defining graffiti)

-> I separated the logo into parts and elements and found out that colour, separation, elimination and multiplying affects a lot.

At the bus stop distortion ( all kinds of graffiti, ruining the sign, damaged logo) and clarity(information) were coexistent.

Comparing distortion to clarity might accentuate distorted elements more,

and at the bus stop I assumed given informations are the representatives of the ‘Clarity’.

What I found out during this experiment is people almost didn’t care about the informations, and signs.

In a high possibility they only cared about the but arrival times which is provided through the screen at the bus stop.

(Types of the informations at the bus stop / Timetables, bus numbers, bus map, arrivals, night buses, oyster card informations, routes, fares, advertisements, notices about changing the routes etc……)

People were more interested in changing informations which is fixed, and not always same. At this point, I thought people weren’t using information as information, and I felt the real purpose of the information is gone, changed and distorted.

So I wanted to change that whole phenomena, by damaging the information people usually take. As another kind of distortion.

Therefore, I designed a real time arrival bus map which is unreadable, by making the moving, fluid information fixed. By calculating the distance with time receiver can figure out the informations. Solving this mathematics, would rarely take place. The information become useless.