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A PASSAGE FROM PLACE TO PLACE
NOT A PLACE IN ITSELF
NOT A PLACE IN ITSELF
PLACEMAKING
Placemaking is a term that began to be used in
the 1970s by architects and planners to
describe the process of creating squares,
plazas, parks, streets and waterfronts that will
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attract people because they are pleasurable or
interesting. Landscape often plays an
important role in the design process.
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Placemaking is the art of creating public "places
places of
the soul" that uplift and help us connect to each
other and to our environment.
—PPS member
PLACEMAKING
PLACEMAKING
PLACELESSNESS
NOWHERE
Placemaking is the art of creating public "places of the soul" that uplift and help us
connect to each other and to our environment.
—PPS member
•Creating landscapes
Creating interest
•Creating interest
•Connecting to the environment (outside environment perhaps)
•Creating places of pause
•Creating places for human connection and interaction
•Since you are ‘NOWHERE’, we are dealing with a blank slate which
can allow you to chose to be anywhere you want to be (perhaps
virtually)
MAKING ‘SOMEWHERE’
SEEING SOMEWHERE
BEING SOMEWHERE
SCENARIO ONE_wonder leads to discovery
A projected video is pixelated until a motion sensor senses
a stopped presence. A person who pauses brings the
projected image into focus. Slowing down one’s pace or
stopping slowly unvails an image leading to discovery.
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speed of video response
pixelating/blurring--focusing/sharpening cycles
FAST - FAST
PACED PROJECTED
CENTRAL VIDEO
ENVIONMENT RESPONSE
MEDITATIVE,
SLOW- SLOW
PACED PROJECTED
PERIPHERY VIDEO
ENVIRONMENT RESPONSE
PARAMETER_nature of projected images
Depending on which zone one finds oneself in the PATH system, the nature of projected images changes.
The west side provides a constant live feed of images of sunsets around the world, the central zone proj- WEST CENTRAL EAST
ects daytime scenery and activity, while the east projects live videos of the rising sun over iconic skylines.
Time remains frozen in the differnt zones as the live feed cameras “chase” the sun around the globe.
PARAMETER_nature of projected images
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STANDARD TIME ZONES OF THE WORLD
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HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS
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Anchorage
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Los Angeles
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Denver
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Mexico
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New York
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Manaus
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Buenos Aires
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South Georgia
and the South
Sandwitch Islands
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STANDARD TIME ZONES OF THE WORLD
Itseqqortoomiit
(Scoresbysund)
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London
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Paris
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Istanbul
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Moscow
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Samara
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Perm'
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STANDARD TIME ZONES OF THE WORLD
Mumbai
(Bombay)
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SINGAPORE
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Beijing
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Tokyo
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Sydney
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Magadan
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Auckland
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Paris
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Tokyo
HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS
Mexico Mumbai
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Manaus SINGAPORE
TTONGA
Sydney
Auckland
Buenos Aires
South Georgia
and the South
Sandwitch Islands
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PATH TIME ZONES_
frozen time
A scheme was devised which divided the
PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES
of the world. The project gives time a
spatial dimension. Each of the zones
preserves a certain hour of the day; live
feed from places where the assigned hour
is at that moment real time is projected in
the space. Inhabitants of the PATH are
given the opportunity to not only go to a
new space and geographical place, but
also to a chosen time of day.
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PATH TIME ZONES_
frozen time
A scheme was devised which divided the
PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES
of the world. The project gives time a
spatial dimension. Each of the zones
preserves a certain hour of the day; live
feed from places where the assigned hour
is at that moment real time is projected in
the space. Inhabitants of the PATH are
given the opportunity to not only go to a
new space and geographical place, but
also to a chosen time of day.
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preserves a certain hour of the day; live
feed from places where the assigned hour
is at that moment real time is projected in
the space. Inhabitants of the PATH are
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given the opportunity to not only go to a
new space and geographical place, but
also to a chosen time of day.
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PATH TIME ZONES_
time as a system of organisation
Time in the PATH system is organized in a continuous manner,
allowing inhabitants to create cognitive maps of the space.
The PATH system is given a layer of information and an
organizing system that people intuitively understand, easing
thier common frustration with being lost and being unable to
tell direction. One always understands that 3 is before 4, and
that 5 follows it. The PATH TIME ZONES system makes no
relation to the above ground map; rather it creates a new and
completely unrelated basic system of organization and
sequencing.
PATH TIME ZONES_
time as destination and journey
The PATH TIME ZONES system allows one to travel the journey
of a full 24 hour day in a fragment of that time, always experi-
encing real time during the journey. Or alternatively, on a
whim, inhabitants of the PATH can travel to a particular
desired time (and location) and expereince the activities
associated with that time (and location), escaping the reali-
ties of Toronto’s real time.
TONGA
HAWAII
ANCHORAGE
LOS ANGELES
DENVER
MEXICO
NEW YORK
MANAUS
BUENOS AIRES
S. SANDWITCH IS.
ITSEQQORTOOMIITT
LONDON
PARIS
ISTANBUL
MOSCOW
SAMARA
PERM’
MUMBAI
SINGAPORE
BEIJING
TOKYO
SYDNEY
MAGADAN
AUCKLAND
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TONGA
HAWAII
ANCHORAGE
LOS ANGELES
DENVER
MEXICO
NEW YORK
MANAUS
BUENOS AIRES
S. SANDWITCH IS.
ITSEQQORTOOMIITT
LONDON
PARIS
ISTANBUL
MOSCOW
SAMARA
PERM’
MUMBAI
SINGAPORE
BEIJING
TOKYO
SYDNEY
MAGADAN
AUCKLAND
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TONGA
HAWAII
ANCHORAGE
LOS ANGELES
DENVER
MEXICO
NEW YORK
MANAUS
BUENOS AIRES
S. SANDWICH IS.
ITTOQQORTOOMIITT
LONDON
PARIS
ISTANBUL
MOSCOW
SAMARA
PERM’
MUMBAI
SINGAPORE
BEIJING
TOKYO
SYDNEY
MAGADAN
AUCKLAND
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TAKE PART IN THE EDUCATION
TORONTO TIME PATH _let Toronto witness your world
_GIVING TORONTO WINDOWS INTO WORLD CULTURE AND EVERYDAY RITUALS
If you know of an interesting every-
day ritual which is particular to your
county/city of residence, SHARE IT
WITH TORONTO! Fill out the below
form and we will send you a camera
kit for you to install, so that we can
capture the event as it happens ev-
eryday and play it live to our Toronto
PATH visitors. DOWNLOAD FORM
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Click on a time to be taken to place
where that time is real time. See what
the people in the Toronto PATH system
are seeing right now.
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SINGAPORE
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ties associated with it.