Neighborhood Collage

An Abstract Collage of Beijing Neighborhoods Creates a Colorful Stencil on a Dilapidated Courtyard WallJuly 20, 2012

BlinkingCity is a unique collaboration between Marcella Campa and Stefano Avesani. The duo created this colorful abstract collage using several maps from the rapidly transforming Hutong neighborhoods in Beijing. Here’s how they describe it:

Blinking City is a project investigating the inadequacy of traditional maps for city environments characterized by fast pace transformation and urban growth. As soon as the map is done, the city it describes has already gone. We transferred one of the Blinking City pattern, based on a collage of several Hutong neighbourhoods of Beijing, onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house in Xianyukou district, located in the core of the city.

See much more of the project over on Behance.

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  BLINKING CITY 

  stencil variable dimension, stencil on wall, 2011 
  
  
  BlinkingCity is a project investigating the inadequacy of traditional maps for cityenvironments characterized by fast pace transformation and urban growth. Assoon as the map is done, the city it describes has already gone. We transferredone of the Blinking City pattern, based on a collage of several Hutongneighbourhoods of Beijing, onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house inXianyukou district, located in the core of the city
  
  Thanks to game designer Eric Zimmerman and architect Nathalie Pozzi, who wrote the text for the legenda giving a meaning to each colour:
  
  Generals hide under the kitchen table. Newspaper crossword puzzles clean the windowpan. A ball
  lands on the neighbor’s roof. In the memory of a broken television, pixels flicker. The lottery disappointsanother player. A coin flips. Bottles from sports fans crowd the bar. Ready? Go.

  
  www.instanthutong.com
  www.ericzimmerman.com
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