INSTALLATION: Athens Fringe Festival 2009 - Mapping Networks ATTIKO (2009)

CONCEPT:
The ongoing mediation between the ever proliferating networks and the international boundary of maps has mediated the collective media of transportation as an additive mean of responding to the possibility of generating community and diversified understanding of visualization through understanding scale and media.

This installation of the hanging Attiko Metro tickets are to show the diversity in a site specific context, deliberating and identifying the importance of the collective which mediates the public, and how the public utilizes infrastructure. Through collecting old/used metro cards, the tickets will be hung in a manner where by it would represent the ATTIKO Underground Map.

The initial map would not be noticeable until someone stands parallel, underneath, the installation itself—then the clear perspective of the Athens Underground map would be revealed. Otherwise, from a distance, the tickets, hung in a poetic forest of transparent fishing lines, would look to the stranger like a repetitive diagram of an impermeable network/infrastructure.

FUTURE CITY MAPPING: NEW YORK, PARIS, VIENNA, & BEYOND

Title: Mapping Networks-ATTIKO

Design & Fabrication:
Wendy W Fok

Installation Team:
Natalia Kastravell, Vasilis Raptis


Completed:
15 - 21 JULY 2009
Location:
Gazi, Technopolis

Copyright © atelier//studio WF + WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC 

INSTALLATION: Athens Fringe Festival 2009 - Mapping Networks ATTIKO (2009)

CONCEPT:
The ongoing mediation between the ever proliferating networks and the international boundary of maps has mediated the collective media of transportation as an additive mean of responding to the possibility of generating community and diversified understanding of visualization through understanding scale and media.

This installation of the hanging Attiko Metro tickets are to show the diversity in a site specific context, deliberating and identifying the importance of the collective which mediates the public, and how the public utilizes infrastructure. Through collecting old/used metro cards, the tickets will be hung in a manner where by it would represent the ATTIKO Underground Map.

The initial map would not be noticeable until someone stands parallel, underneath, the installation itself—then the clear perspective of the Athens Underground map would be revealed. Otherwise, from a distance, the tickets, hung in a poetic forest of transparent fishing lines, would look to the stranger like a repetitive diagram of an impermeable network/infrastructure.

FUTURE CITY MAPPING: NEW YORK, PARIS, VIENNA, & BEYOND

Title: Mapping Networks-ATTIKO

Design & Fabrication:
Wendy W Fok

Installation Team:
Natalia Kastravell, Vasilis Raptis


Completed:
15 - 21 JULY 2009
Location:
Gazi, Technopolis

Copyright © atelier//studio WF + WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC 

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The endeavours of Wendy W Fok's research-based projects are dedicated to the creation of designs interlaced within the principals of procedural-based mathematics, logics, and material studies, within the field of architecture, digital media, and design. Her designs are substantiated through explorations between the cross-pollination of spatial installation arts and novel architectural innovations embedded within urban cityscapes.


Wendy W Fok, director/founder and team member of WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC (Architecture) and atelier//studio-WF (Art), winner of the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award (2009), and a selected designer of the Perspective 40 under 40 Award (2011), has a Master of Architecture & Certification of Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, with a concentration in Economics (Statistics) from Columbia University. Notably, WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC has been selected by Twenty+Change (co-curated by Heather Dubbeldam and Lola Sheppard) as one of twenty Emerging Canadian Design Practices (2011) in Canada.

Fok has an international background from Vienna, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong & Canada. Her art installations have been displayed in Dubai, Vancouver, Toronto, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Athens, Venice, & Prague, and has worked on several international architectural projects, exhibitions, & competitions-- including the HKSZ Bi-City Biennale 2012, 12th La Biennale di Venezia 2011, the Shanghai Expo 2010, Athens Fringe Festival 2009, & Lower East Side Tenement Museum 2004/05.

Fok's interests are toward the investigations of contextual and content-related natures of fabrication, partnered with cradle-to-cradle material investigations that compliment scaled prototypes within architectural design. Meanwhile, her design methodology is to challenge the dynamic significance in structuring and mapping the ideals of art, architecture, and urbanism within the processes of [design | optimisation | fabrication] for resilient planning, material research, and alternative methods of fabrication with progressive aims within the built environment.

On her spare time, Fok is the founder & administrator of (C)ODE-(C)OLLECTIVE-- a collective forum for Grasshopper, Rhino, Parametric Modeling, & other digital media / design tools, which pose as an educational & developing archive site to formulate the critical utility of digital design-- an Associate Member of the HKPDA (Hong Kong Parametric Design Association), and Contributing / Overseas Editor for the a+a magazine, published by the Architectural Society of China.