Narration Told by Corners

My trailing walk throw some parts of Reykjavik, Iceland I'd done for my un-mapping and mapping project, to develop genius approach of perception and translation from environments into concepts.

The streets can be followed within people's everyday stories, not just for crossing, as it covers most of the daily basis activity, so why not associated with understanding aspects of social life.

There must be more potential for interactions besides effects on social and even individual life. Especially, alongside them, we have technologies finding their way throwing navigating and establishing connections.

Before starting this project, some projects made my interests focused on interactive urban settings, or in general; how to empower citizens in urban spaces.

• Photography by me

As I find my way through walking tours in Reykjavik; I tried to figure out how this city will propose its matters and problems before I role up my findings as my proposal.

Yeah, I found people there lonely walking but just by facing in an intersection or just in an occasionally encountering; I found their attention in very human being way, miracle happening in a quite simple way.

“His eyes are cold in your eyes “

, but warm and sensitive, actually what I found!

As I continue my dream track in this city; from Sundlaugavegure then Borgartún then to downtown therefore Laugavegur. I realized that some things were very typical but warning happening every day some things that have their role in the disrupting of such peaceful interaction. Actually, constructions we find; making our view narrow and many times as security gaps, yet we can't avoid their functions.

Much more than these unpleasant but acceptable elements, some structures made this city kind and friendly and drew me closer to the key ideas in my mind during the first while of the project. In fact, both of these two sides' pros and cons, drew my attention to a key fact to make our street so narrative for a very productive urban life. This key fact is about Corners.

Exactly Corners shape our path and direct us to continue our way or just stand or even have our way of seeing while having people facing by casual or from an appointment. Thus, this point makes me think that we can make disadvantages such as buildings or structures under construction into useful corners.

Next, I continued to do another tour around harbor and fish markets, to find a beat unusual ideas toward innovative solutions, and to realize how to link industrial spaces to urban and even cultural ones. That’s said that find some hacks in unexpected places for socializing or just inspiring.

All in all, we can think about hacking spaces to add features in our urban life, there should be recalling of many street arts and street activism in big cities like Berlin, New York, but in my point of view, we need to recreate these corners in an interconnected way with considering what is really happening for an individual just passing alongside these occasional elements with a resolution of urban usability such as sustainability, for example, thinking about resourcing energy during a trip in the city.