Bio-mapping

The workshop was about mapping, but not in the 'traditional way'. The main idea was to map a certain area in Delft, trough your senses (your urban body :p). Rather than using your eyes, using our ears, nose, hands, feet (smell, sound, touch). The tools we had were blindfolds, ear-defenders, GPS-devices, lie-detectors and decibel-meters. We were split into two different groups of approximately six people. Our group decided to do three mapping-exercises in pairs of two. The pairs consisted of one ‘guide’ and one ‘victim’.

One victim was blindfolded and had a lie-detector on, one victim was high, blindfolded and had a lie-detector on and the last one (me) had no lie-detector on and was blindfolded. The guide not only guided, but also took notes from the things the victims were saying. Like:
“This is a very crowded place”, “I don’t feel safe here”, “I smell coffee”, “I hear children”, “Shit I stepped into a pile of water” Below is are final result and some impressions.

biomapping