Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Author Animish Kudalkar

The program is interpreted as a sound box intervention above a redundant parking lot located in Belltown, Seattle. The elevated space has a a series of analog bullhorn-like devices as a facade that amplify sound towards the street. Hence it is seen as a platform to call out for attention through music, speech and even accidental vocal expressions. Belltown has a quiet nature during the day that regenerates with the nightlife at late hours. The sound box intervention gives promotional space to local vending businesses during the more commercial hours and a platform for local bands during the late hours.

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Author Nathan [Wayne] Van Zuidam

This interpretation of the strategy imposes a grid of bullhorns onto the existing city wherein additions happen on the sidewalk, the rooftop, the middle of a restaurant, etc. encouraging both spontaneous and premeditated meeting 'points' throughout the map. Log on to see where you going street riding tonight or feel free to make your voice heard at random. People are bound to meet directly and indirectly as a result of these conversation starting interventions.

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Author Steve Vebber

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The Forest Park portion of the CTA Blue Line lies between the Eastbound and Westbound halves of I-920, with boarding platforms open to the sights, smells and especially sounds of the intense daily. The cars pollute the air with the sound waves from their car horns while the mechanically generated communication of the drivers. By simply supplying each station along this CTA route with bullhorns, an architecture of communication, anti-communication, anger, frustration, happiness and freedom of speech is created, giving humans the power to cross the dreaded third rail, via their voices.