The project looks at urban environments, analyses the forces present in particular urban situations, and offers experimental interfaces for dealing with these force fields. The aim, however, is not to develop advanced tools for architectural and urban design, but to create events through which it becomes possible to rethink urban planning and construction. In Tokyo, the central Shimbashi area was analysed in collaboration with local architects.
Participants can collaboratively develop hypothetical urban dynamics.
As soon as one participant starts working on and modifying the urban profile by changing the particle streams with movement attractors, a search engine in the background starts looking in the IP-space for other participants with similar manipulation interests and connects to them. They become present for each other, the activated movement attractors of connected participants will appear in the applet. Some of these can be 'absent' users whose activities are remembered and reactivated by the system for some time after the intervention took place. If another participant or more are found, the characters of the data movements can be changed collaboratively in tendencies, they can be made stronger, weaker, more turbulent, denser, etc. Streams of urban movements can shift between dynamic clusters of participants, chains of events are passing through.