Kolenkit

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From September until Christmas 2011 the Pink Pony Express will be around in the Kolenkit. This project follows our previous work in Detroit and Heerlen.

The Pink Pony Express is a four person interdisciplinary team dedicated to the investigation, and visualization of social networks. Usually, these networks operate undetected, and escape traditional political and media radar.
The PPE seeks out 'soft data'. Soft data is information which is too sparse, spread out and nuanced to be mapped statistically. Soft data is often overshadowed by hard data, which can be analytically useful, but often presents a too general, incomplete and sometimes negative image.
The basic strategy of the Ponies is ‘research through making’, with every exploration taking material form. These forms occupy, or are brought back to the places under study. What is returned may not be immediately recognizable to the members of those communities; their work thus gives back what was never possessed in the first place.
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October 4, 2010

Pony Talks #2

Soft data in Detroit, Preliminary findings in the new Wild West

The Pink Pony Express formed in 2009 to investigate the positive effects of population decline within the city of Detroit.A multitude of external conditions paved the way for the slow breakdown of infrastructure in Detroit, ranging from the almost total extinction of public transportation to the closing of supermarkets. These deconstructed conditions demanded strategies to ensure survival in a place which has become the new Wild West.

Throughout this landscape, barely detected networks are emerging.During the summer of 2010 The Pink Pony Express lived in Detroit; and set out to identify and map these evolving networks.

Please join us in the manege when we present a collection of projects plotting neighborhood revival, food distribution, opportunistic communication, and steam.

Thursday October 21
19:00
De Hollandsche Manege
Vondelstraat 140
1054 GT AMSTERDAM

Geplaatst door the pink ponys op 8:39 AM
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