About

Everyone who has lived in an apartment has a story to tell. Gothamberg is a place to read, interact and exchange stories of lives in apartment buildings. Together, these tales of unwanted sounds and smells, lobbies and bathrooms, laundry room gossip and unexpected favors form a single collective building, Gothamberg. The stories describe characters immersed in social dilemmas - guilt, responsibility, legalities and banality. Voyeuristic or chance encounters are concocted from the daily habits of the story makers. Their experiences form the elliptical threads of inhabitation, a mnemonic quality expressing something of the shared nature of dwelling.

This blog was set up to document the process by which Gothamberg was derived. These included meetings with a group of people, each meeting they would either write a story about Gothamberg, or analyze the stories and their relationship to eachother. The group also discussed the first interfaces .


Meeting 2 : Keywords & Relationships
Monday March 21st 2005
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Our assignment:1] Keywords
2] Relationship diagram of keywords
3] What does this make you think of? (optional)

Notes: We talked about 'keywords' and other ways to configure the text. However, we decided that keywords alone are not enough, and that we had to create ways to create relationships between keywords.

meeting2
After tagging his own story, Marek looked up the words
in both Google and Flickr. He then commented on the differences between
each
.
Johanna tagged her own story and created a diagram
using physical spaces and virtual qualities to situate the story.
Christiane created a diagram of the entire storyspace,
centered on where public and private spaces cross, and the positive and
negative effects this has.
Warren's diagram also takes on the entire storyspace,
he articulates the concrete to abstract, from architecture to economics
to....
Marek Johanna Chistiane Warren Vivian