Niclas Jessen
City of the (Re)orientated
2008
The ‘map’ has long been useless in a city whose streets are continually re-shaped by their walkers, vendors, sponsors, hobby street-artists and salvation-sellers. In this anthill of possibilities only the most elastic orientation software can direct the city’s inhabitants through its myriad of shifting, tangled streets.
As more private dwellings of the city connect to this mobile space, more public parks, institutions and cinemas protect themselves from mobile invasion.
Two interdependent territories grow back to back, simultaneously:
The first, a mobile, shifting space is allowed and continually reshaped by the new technologies. A space intent on becoming more stimulating, responsive and distracting.
In the shadows of the mobile territory, grow the immobile spaces. They become ever more out-of-reception and are intent on appealing to the focused eye.
