In March I collaborated with Damien Masson and the ZOOM Architecture team to develop the wikibivouac, one of the selected projects at the Inclusiva-net conference Digital Networks and Physical Space. The event was hosted at the Medialab-Prado.
1) Sculpture of el viajero, the traveler, at MAD airport. I traveled to this cartography conference in the Spanish capital from San Francisco; a journey that once required a year’s travel by ship was completed in a day.
2) Plaza de las Letras, near the Medialab-Prado – my destination in Spain. Interesting to have traveled from Tiburon, California, Spanish for shark. Did the cartographer who named the Tiburon Peninsula think it looked like the gaping jaws of a shark from above, or it that just me?
3) Templo de Debod, the Egyptian temple relocated to Spain. Egypt gifted the temple to show gratitude for Spain’s help in saving ancient monuments from a controlled flood.
4) Fuencarral, at the entrance to the train station. As I ran through the streets, a young child asked ‘Adonde va usted?’ I turned and answered, ‘Al fuencarral!’ Turns out Fuencarral is the name of the neighborhood, not just the train station there as I had thought.
