Tonight, the first iteration of Cross-Border Communication

By Justin on November 16th, 2009, 5:44 pm 2 Comments

Cristina

Tonight, we are going to perform the first iteration of Cross-Border Communication.

Thanks to the generosity from the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Leadership Chair and Spectrodata, we have the equipment we need to realize this project.

Cross-Border Communication was initially imagined through a collaborative effort between Broken City Lab and students from the Vincent Massey Secondary School Junior Physics Club in Windsor, Ontario. The project will attempt to hijack and transform communicative efforts between Windsor and Detroit, which has historically been based solely on economic exchange.

The projection will begin at approximately 8pm near the foot of Ouellette Avenue and Riverside Drive in Windsor and will run for approximately 30 minutes. The projection will be visible from Detroit and from the edge of Windsor’s waterfront.

Tagged:

↑ up

Field Tests & Exampling: Moving the Planters

By Justin on September 7th, 2009, 9:28 am 0 Comments

IMG_4915

I hope you’ll forgive us for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been on a film shoot all day, everyday for the last few weeks, while other BCL folks have been traveling, moving, working, and studying, and so meeting even once a week has been a challenge. Thankfully, school is literally a couple days away and with it comes some kind of stability in a schedule.

However, we’ve still been trying to get some things done, mostly it’s been this planters project and planning for our upcoming event, Welcome to the Neighbourhood. On Thursday, we did some more field tests with our planters where we’re discovering which plants have been doing better and trying to determine why.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tagged:

↑ up




Location

Windsor from Google Maps' perspective

Windsor, Ontario (South of Detroit)

Save the City !!!

Broken City Lab: Save the City
5 months of community events to imagine how to save this city.

Participate! March 20th, 3PM

Mailing List


 

Activity

Follow us on Twitter

Conversations

  • Michelle: SO FUNNY!
  • darren: I’m sure sparkfun has some too, maybe different.
  • Justin: ahhh nice. thanks for the link!
  • darren: adafruit has been selling those for quite a while http://www.adafruit.com/index. php?main_page=product_info&...
  • Justin: Yes, Mark, thanks for the pics and the suggestions for the list, that area around the Casino fell into the sites of apology side...
  • tinyenormous: Hi justin! For the 2 line contrast thing I have run into similar issues before. I recommend using a pot to control the...
  • Mark Boscariol: p.s. pelissier bldg isn’t mine, but I know the guy who bought it
  • Mark Boscariol: Cool, couldn’t make it but I hope you got the pics I dropped off. 3 houses across from casino parking garage...

Archives

Tags

3D 100 ways abandoned activism advertisements air airport algorithm Ambassador Bridge analog annotate architecture arduino art artist Artspace astroturf automobile awesome balloons banner baskets battery BCL Bench bicycle bike bikes billboard bio biodegradable Blog book books border brainstorm bridge buildings bus Canada car cellphone chalk Chattanooga Chicago cities city citynoise code collaborative collective community computer computers conference Conflux consultancy context costume create here crisis cross-border communication crowd-sourcing data database demo design Detroit development DIY documentary documentation downtown drawing driving ecohouse economy EC Row editing electricity electronics energy environment eric boucher event exhibition exploring extended field trip eye fake fashion fence field test fieldtrip fire firefox flagging tape fuel efficiency gallery game garbage garden gardening geography google google earth google maps graffiti grants grass green Green Corridor guerilla hack hacking Halloween hardware history house housing how to HQ ice ideas image inflatable infrastructure install installation inter-city interactive internet intervention interventions interview ironing knitting LCD Lebel LED light lights list lists magnetic magnets make making mapping maps materials math message michelles Michigan micro-residency mind map monitoring moss movie music naturalized area nature neighbourhood news newspaper newspapers New York new york city night noiseborder office hours open source opportunity paint painting paper parade paranoia park parking ticket parks participation party pedagogy performance perspective Peterborough photography PHP physics pixel planning plans plant planters plants plastic bags politics pollution presentation printers project projection projector projects psychogeography public public art public domain public realm public space public transit pulp radio Rain reading reblog recycle remote research residency resistors restaurant reuse ribbons river roof rope safety Sandwich Sao Paulo Save the City school science screening sculpture sculptures seed bombs seeds sign signage snow social practice software soil soldering sound Soundart space spray paint stencil stencils stickers story strategic plan street street art street art strike submissions suburb surveillance sustainability sustainable tags talk tea technology test tetris text Text In-Transit time-lapse tools Toronto transit transmit transplant travel tree trees tshirts tunnel tv university urban venues video visualization walk wall water Waterloo website wheat paste wildflowers Windsor youth youtube

Our Recent Research



» See All of Our Research

Research Description

Broken City Lab is an interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures to reimagine the potential for action in a collapsing post-industrial city.

Call for Submissions

Broken City Lab: Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation
The Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation invites the radical re-imagining of the possibilities in occupying a vacant storefront in the heart of Windsor for one month. Apply now!

Subscribe

Broken City Lab RSS icon Blog RSS

Broken City Lab RSS icon Comments RSS

Events

Sing to the Streets March 20, 2010, 3pm

City Share Conference in Chattanooga Feb 17 - 20, 2010

Sites of Apology / Sites of Hope Sunday, Feb 28, 2010, 1pm

Public Realm at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts Jan 20 - 31, 2010

Save the City: Listen to the City Sunday, Jan 24, 2010, 8pm

» More Events...

Cross-Border Communication

Cross-Border Communication: We're In This Together
Cross-Border Communication is an interventionist performance series based on the desperate need to communicate with Detroit from Windsor.

Most Read Posts

Contact

info@brokencitylab.org

Bookmarks

What We're Reading

Links

Meta