Chenoe Hart - Newsletter #3: Repurposing and Rearranging
Some updates on activities I did and projects I released over the past several months:
The biggest new project I have recently released, if you haven’t seen it yet, is FutureRack. My completed design project explores how to re-purpose data center server racks for use in unexpected household settings, and it’s now online at its own dedicated website allowing you to browse through the fictional products (though there has also been some real-life prototyping involved) and to imagine them inside your home.
Addressable Space Appendices. The final releases of analytical illustrations from last year’s Summer of Protocols program are now online. Part Four (PDF link) investigates how chain coffee shops act as duplicates of each other and how the forms of suburban cul-de-sacs lengthen the journeys people take to travel through them. Part Five (another PDF) explores how elevators abbreviate physical space, and then discusses a scenario where building address numbers would be replaced with digital signs.
Edge Esmaralda. This summer, the Ethereum Foundation/Summer of Protocols program invited me to travel to attend and conduct a workshop at Edge Esmeralda, an experimental temporary pop-up city where participants organized community activities and event programming over the course of a month in Healdsburg, California. My workshop, conducted in the last week of the program, built on my ideas about informational re-mappings of physical geography by asking participants to recall maps of the town they had been inhabiting from memory, and then cut and fold the maps to rearrange them into a new reimagined town layout.
In personal news, I also now have concrete plans to move back to New York in November of this year. If any readers in New York want to reconnect towards the end of the year, let me know!
Until next time,
Chenoe