How can media engage the urban environment, not just augment it?
The above two scenes in Berlin, illustrate the best of what urban media can be and the worst. Leipziger Platz is now a barren place, the buildings and the people replaced by scaffolding and printed canvas. This simulated public is unusable, in the several times that I have visited this site, I have never seen anyone here, only driving traffic or entering the subway. Around the corner, the new holocaust memorial, uses media in a small, personal way. Inside the structure, there is a small video screen of two men kissing in that spot, before the memorial was built. This moment of presence and representation is magnetic. There were several people there reading, and looking in to the window.
BOUNDING TERMS
This realization about how mediated public spaces should work led me to the following parameters for the purpose of my project. What can be done to within the non- architecture of the narrows to:
activate public space
re-arrange spatial hierarchies
develop an integrated design of media space
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