ASKER for Twitter is a digital urban intervention design collaboratively by Garrett Ryan Miller and Michael Barker as part of the Scanning the City studio instructed by Mona El Khafif at California College of the Arts.
In an urban environment that continually evolves as a stage for virtual conversations, ASKER strives to leverage mobile interactions to produce new breeds of urban space. The ways in which we experience spaces within the city are becoming increasingly augmented. We now see urban centers like downtown San Francisco through a virtual lense, be it Twitter, Yelp, Google, or Instagram. ASKER looks to elevate these virtual conversations that we have everyday to a level that begins to influence the way we interact in urban spaces. Sited in Yerba Buena Lane, a conduit that connects Mid Market Street to Mission Street, multiple types of potential interactions occur on a daily basis. ASKER seeks to provide people who would otherwise pass right by one another a platform for discussion and debate. This re-envisioning of the agora allows for a new type of place branding that is dependent on the ways people now converse using technology. By utilizing parametric analysis of the surrounding ASKER would use live, localized digital feeds from Twitter conversations to reproject trending topics onto the surfaces of the Yerba Buena conduit. Here, the passersby can read and respond to continually updating discussions that are occurring directly in the space, helping influence and inform physical events and new narratives. ASKER would operate on a cyclical level, engaging with users through the implementation of urban furniture, live projections, and large live-discussion events.
CREDITS
Garrett Ryan Miller
Garrett Ryan Miller
in collaboration with Michael Barker
Scanning the City_mona el khafif
California College of the Arts_Fall 2012
Scanning the City_mona el khafif
California College of the Arts_Fall 2012