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still on fire thinking about the communicating through walls project, we are looking for a serious context… we came up with two scenarios or at least started to think more focused about where we could apply the project best.

One thing is to place two or more netwalls in places that are in some way linked by fate or historically but are still apart not only geographically but also in people’s minds. The latter would be like a metaphorical wall (m would say so too…).

The walls would be the starting point of communication between the places and the visiting people.

For example one could place a wall at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site in Germany and the other wall in Jerusalem at the Yad Vashem memorial site .

The wall would replace the guestbook where visitors can express their feelings. Their traces would be transferred to the other site as a sign of connection and compassion.

The public urban space of today is controlled by all kinds of signs. These signs allege a monologue, establishing a structure in which the urban life takes place. There have always been groups abusing signs to express themselves. By doing so they started to give back a new identity to the urban space, an identity reflecting the every day life taking place in it. [Jean Baudrillard "kool killer"]

A similar process has evolved in the web. Instead of just publishing information, it is now shared through rss-feeds, cataloged by tags
and commented. The use of new media in public space is reduced to video walls playing commercials and short news. [Debug 12]

The Wall project could offer a new way of individual communication. By using the screen as input device, it breaks the onesided flow of information. Everybody is able to share, look at and comment information. The wall runs in a twenty four hour loop, taking and reflecting the input of one day. Only information entered at a certain time can be overwritten, this way a history remains subtle visible but gets overwritten day by day.

Information is shared on a geographic basis, input is only visible in a given range and is then slowly faded out. So the walls build individual networks.

networking today means the possibilty of reaching every place on this planet by just some mouse clicks. Different kinds of devices enable communication between interlocutors over every distance. all of these devices have one thing in common: they are designed for single users.

As a result, the growing global publicity based on todays communication possibilities faces an increasing privacy of the single individual. So how could one use the network for a public transfer of information on the side of the user?

not so much an object, a wall defines the dimensions of a room, visible from the inside as well as the outside. What if a network-enhanced wall could connect remote rooms or public spaces? the boundary would become an interface of communication.

Walls are carriers of information, wether it is advertisement, graffiti, signs or simply the visible effects of destruction over time. Networking walls could set up an emotional connection between different public spaces.

Imagine spontaneous paintings or writings of condolence on a wall in paris transferred to a wall near ground zero in NYC in realtime.

Imagine one wall at the monument at “Platz der Luftbrücke” in Berlin, and one at the Frankfurt Airport, from where the “Raisin Bombers” started.

Imagine a wall at the stadium where the soccer worldchampionship games take place, and you can write messages for your team and its fans from their home stadium.