Notes 3

Movement

Zones

Green- Main "screen"

Blue- Affected space

Green- Main "screen"

Light Blue- Wavy "screen"

Blue- Affected space

Walk

DRS06 cc from Queralt 

Video street

DRS06 ee from Queralt 

DRS06 dd from Queralt 

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After weeks of knowing Notting Hill, visiting the place, walking there, taking pictures, learning about it, observing the same place in differents days, different time and from different points of view.

After annalyzing and trying to do different things with what I had got, I realized that I was in a cul-de-sac. Blocked because I didn't know what to do with all that. For this reason I stopped and observed all this from outside to relocate me to know where I am going to go. I again raised some main points.

HIPOTESIS

• What is space?
• Spaces are not just spaces. Spaces affect people emotions.
• Pictures, sounds and words about Portobello are not Portobello. They are just pictures, sounds and words. Is that the meaning of the place?
• Is a place an amount of relationships between people, spaces, actions, time, senses? 
• Are feelings of people about Portobello real? If it yes, why don't try to recreate an space wich can  produce the same feelings/experience as the original one? Is that a moore accurated way to represnet a space? 
• Find out if it's possible to recreate a specific Space without the Space itself. No need Portobello site to show what Portobello is. 
• Can we get a diferent space from fitting the crumbled pieces of an original space?

WHAT

Showing an space from a non conventional way,  but trying to be more accurate. Show Portobello through the senses, feelings, thoughts, emotions...

WHO

To everyone that want to experimentate/know the feeling of being at Portobello area.

To establish a method that lend to reprenent places.

HOW process

• Analyzing the site:

• Taking pictures.
• Recording sounds.
• Interact with people.

• Organising the research.
• Main spaces:
• The sides of M40
• Prtobello road
• Notting Hill's residencial streets
• Indoor Spaces (bar, stations, shops)
• Shaping the elements I get.
• Crumbling the place and recompose it again (no necessary keeping the same structure, same size, same shape...) Not just copying it exactly how it is, but recreating it.

HOW method

Always knowing that Portobello is Portobello; the aim of this project is trying to find a way to represent and show that space/experience by the time it's studied, observed, analized... How making people to have a similar experience as someone can feel in the original space.
Is that possible by creating an ennviorment with succesive sounds, images, textures, paths?

Breaking the "reality" to (re)construct a new space. 

Process: a series of actions or steps towards achieving a particular end.

Method: a particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something. 

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This is not a train

René Magritte "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", 1929

What is space? Pictures, sounds and words about Portobello are not Portobello. They are just pictures, sounds and words. 

What is space? Is not just a place to fill with furniture and people. Is a place an amount of relationships between people, spaces, actions, time, senses?