Entry #20

Drawing Sound Wall

Takuya Suga

A large digital display to which visitors can upload doodles, drawn either on mobile devices or on pieces of paper. Uploaded doodles come to life and move around autonomously within the screen, bumping into other doodles and eventually merging to become larger doodles. Sound effects can be assigned to the doodles, which are played back whenever doodles bump into each other — creating an ever-changing background music for Sony Park.

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FOR (A): Doodles are fun, both for people who draw them and people who look at them

AGAINST (A): I don't think this will have much effect on the city at large

AGAINST (B): This isn't novel; similar ideas already exist in museums etc. worldwide

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• • The degree to which advanced technologies (including IT) are used
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• • Site-specificness: The degree to which the idea targets a specific locale
    1  (Site-agnostic/universal) 1 - 2 - 3 (Site-specific)
• • Degree of commercial potential
    2  (Strictly for public good) 1 - 2 - 3 (May profit some parties involved)
• • Time scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
    1  (Short-term change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Long-term change)
• • Geographic scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
    2  (Small-scale change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Large-scale change)
• • Hurdles toward participation, from a citizen’s perspective
    1  (Anyone can participate) 1 - 2 - 3 (Requires expertise, time, money, etc.)