ANNIKA BASTACKY
TORP Oakland
TORP Oakland
Annika Bastacky
Territory of Radical Potentiality (TORP) Oakland is a set of speculative materials for establishing an extrajudicial territory within the boundaries of any US port. A not insignificant percentage of container ships transport at least one crew member who lacks a US D-1 visa, and is therefore barred from disembarking, or setting foot on US soil. TORPs provide these seafarers the opportunity to dwell on land, with both feet firmly on solid ground. TORP Oakland comprises a toolkit and manual for territory establishment and maintenance.
BECCA HANSON
Pet Park
Pet Park
Becca Hanson
Pet Park is a mobile park for an imaginary future scenario in which green spaces are harder to come by. These personalized patches of park are where people get their nature kicks.
Jiahao He
INTERSECTION
INTERSECTION
Jiahao He
Intersection explores the layering of physical and digital space, as a metaphor for the way I explore the city of San Francisco. The digital and physical worlds are coincident, and cannot be separated. We often browse the internet for information and reviews about a particular place, and plan to visit it later based on that information. The experience of optically combining graphic representations of both worlds underscores their dissonance while creating a new combined world.
Xinxin Wang
SOUND EXPERIENCE
SOUND EXPERIENCE
Xinxin Wang
Sound Experience surfaces the noise inherent in our living environment, which we create but often tune out. Viewers can listen to digitally augmented ambient sound from Union Square, as a way to approach their environment from a new perspective. Sound Experience translates the organic human noise into “natural” sounds (birds chirping, etc) of a similar audio frequency. It sets up a language rule of translation. Because many pedestrians use headphones to filter out the noise of the city, headphones play an important role in transporting viewers from the cacophony of the urban landscape to the supposed bucolic refuge of the natural landscape.
Xinyue Song
The Walk
The Walk
Xinyue Song
When we travel from one location to another within the city, we prioritize speed and expediency. But the walk can also be a fulfilling experience in its own right, full of excitement and diverse points of interest. People are what make a city unique. Each walk we take throughout the city should be customized to our individual personalities, not unified by convenience.
The Walk is an app with which to get lost in the city, and to create their own route map.
PO-HSUN YU
THE TINY ADVENTURE
THE TINY ADVENTURE
Po-Hsun Yu
The Tiny Adventure expresses my life trajectory in an intuitive way. When we use maps to document our daily lives, they begin to learn the places we've searched and visited. No two people will see the same map, even if it’s viewed through the same app. The Tiny Adventure is a digital map that grows over time. It generates unique blocks or even cities.