Company:
RISD
Year:
2021
Overview
Documents of road patches in Providence, Rhode Island. Drawings marked with coordinates. All proceeds will go to mini-grants for artists through the Providence Streets Coalition: The Providence Streets Coalition is an alliance of community organizations, local businesses, schools, institutions, civic leaders, and engaged individuals advocating for people-friendly streets in Providence. We support providing more transportation options to improve safety, equity, sustainability, prosperity, health, and quality-of-life in our city and region. We believe in constructing streets in a way that lets all people move safely and easily no matter how they travel.
Non-human Collaborations
Providence has open source data about potholes — what can I do with this?
Novel Maps
I explored potholes from several angles: collecting existing data on pothole complaints and visiting those sites, trying to negotiate participation in a pothole filling with the Department of Public Works, making rubbings of potholes, and drawing the basic geometries of every pothole on my commute from home to school to work and back. The result was a personal database of pothole silhouettes with corresponding coordinates that described My Potholes. I turned these into a short booklet. It is still for sale. This "map" was the beginning of the mapping exploration culminating in my master's thesis installation.
