Project 3: Experiences – Krystle Young

Part 1

1. Create a unified website/app/hashtag for Los Angeles street art and architecture to allow people to identify and locate art and their locations throughout the city. It would be great to also understand more about the artist, where else they have similar pieces in the city or in other parts of the world, and also to understand the piece itself and any backstory the artist has for the purpose of their piece if there is one they’d like to communicate. I am not sure about this idea yet because I think one of the main purposes of street art is that it is meant to be discovered and happened upon rather than sought out and a tourist destination. I, however, would love to have an app like this because then I be able to see what’s out there and what new art pops up before it disappears or becomes covered by other graffiti or art.http://studiodiy.com/2015/08/03/studiodiywallcrawl-the-best-walls-in-los-angeles/
2. A collective Los Angeles city website to allow people to locate and find homeless shelters in the area. The website could list the types of items they need for the types of homeless communities they serve (women, children, mentally ill, hungry, homeless, jobless, etc.). If it could also show map concentrations for each type of community and where they congregate, it would help social workers and the city identify where to offer specific items that are needed the most. There was a city that left a refrigerator out that let people put leftovers or food they were gong to throw out into the fridge so that anyone who needed the food come to take it. Maintenance of hygiene in these fridges have been a problem, however, in Berlin.
   
3. Gamify or incentivize charitable actions when people (of all ages) check in and taking a picture of:
   • Volunteering or donating to a homeless shelter OR
   • Picking up trash in a certain area to help clean up the streets (litter, trash, etc.) OR
   • Planting gardens in unused lots, along sidewalks, and freshening up greenery in parks and playgrounds
4. Encourage artists and local chefs to repurpose or unused older historical buildings into pop up restaurants events or art exhibits with a retro theme?
   http://observer.com/2016/01/adaptive-reuse-gives-new-life-to-old-buildings/

Part 2

Part 3: City Canvas App

Features

Learn | Archive | Record

Learn

Artist information + artist portrait (anonymous or signed)

Take an audio or virtual tour

Show about information behind the work like you would in a museum on a placard

Title

Date

Dedications

Message, meaning, sources of inspiration

Allow interpretation as revelation through information

History

Allow users to add their own comments to allow discussion and interpretation on the meaning behind the works that can be voted up or down in popularity

Archive

See the progression!

Preserve works and the context in which they were put up

Take pleasure in watching the walls change

See the works before and after they get defaced, stolen, erased, removed, sold

See timelapses of works get put up

See past works layered under current day

*peel back layers

Watch | Interact | Play

Augmented Reality

Animated Gif Street Art

Can collect and display photos of the art that is discovered like trading cards

Can allow users to “peel back layers” of current works so they can uncover what lays beneath

Add music or commentary or narrative at works via geo location

Discover | Treasure Hunt | Thrill of the Chase

Collect images of favorite pieces that auto adds the date and location of where you found it to help auto-archive and auto-document your discovery

Then share with others via social media

Find locations and other similar works nearby via maps with pins you can drop an add photo

Sort/categorize street art by city, location (hidden vs not hidden), art movement, theme, artist, color, etc.

Explore featured partners, sites, and stories

Find exhibits

Allow users to happen upon or dig up Easter eggs and secret messages placed by the artist!

Collaborate | Connect | Share

Users will crowd source street art by contributing and uploading photos.

Best ones/professional ones will be voted upon and used for the peel back feature

Can create themed online exhibits curated by galleries and users

Allow users to share tips on how and where to find certain pieces that may be difficult to access (rooftop access, fenced off, etc.)

Script

Attraction – Why?

I wondered…Wouldn’t it be great if I could find cool street art more easily in one central place? And document it and share it with others before it disappears?

Entry

Welcome to City Canvas

Open the app and snap away

It’s that simple

Anything you snap will automatically be auto archived with the date, time, and location

Engagement

So how does it work?

We use

Augmented reality

Geo location

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