links for 2008-04-25 :: Architectures of Control

links for 2008-04-25

Published April 25th, 2008 in Architectures of Control.

Flickr: The Desire Paths Pool

Google may be a database of intentions; ‘desire paths’ are the record of user intentions which in some way conflict with what the designers intended…

(tags: desire paths desirepaths design architecture built environment inention intent)
Brian Burns’ presentation on ‘Newness or Useness’

…whereas Carleton University’s Brian Burns, in ‘From Newness to Useness
and Back Again’, looks at how wear-and-tear ‘use marks’ can reveal the life story of products, and how modern throwaway, non-maintainable design detaches us from this rich interaction history. Presentation is 9.9 Mb PDF; fantastic collection of use-mark photos starts on page 29.

(tags: usemark use mark brianburns newness useness maintenance interaction history design)

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1 Crosbie Fitch
Apr 25th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

I used to be amused by the disrespect shown to Sir Basil Spence’s ‘aesthetically’ laid out pathways on the Sussex University campus that he architected. ‘Cattle paths’ would appear as students disobediently took energy (and decision cost) efficient deviations across grassed areas. Inevitably, protective fences were reluctantly erected (and removed at such times as the fenceless aesthetic needed to be restored for visiting dignitaries).

Apologies for probably taking ‘paths’ and ‘university’ a tad too literally.
2 Ariel Guersenzvaig
May 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am

User-generated paths from Berkeley
http://fury.com/berkeleypaths/index.htm

This one is particularly brilliant:
http://fury.com/berkeleypaths/pages/09.htm

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