
Additionally, the designer links the everyday capability of people to find their way in the city via technology with the natural ability of birds to find their destination through the streets. “A birdhouse becomes their destination as Google Map does”, in Hsiao’s words.
Apart from being a cute intervention in the urban environment, these birdhouses are associated with the trending topic of the merge between physical and virtual world. Based on this idea, a concept called ‘map’ has been developed in the recent past by the German artist Aram Bartholl, who created a series of public space installations inspired by the same Google marker. By placing huge Google markers on the same spot that the mapping service identifies as the centre of the city, the artist wishes to question the relation of the digital space to the urban daily life in the real space.
In de afgelopen jaren hebben we onderzoek gedaan naar het fenomeen stadverlaters. In dit rapport kijken we naar hun drijfveren en de kansen die deze trend biedt voor het platteland.
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