urban acupuncture in the era on ubiquitous media
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When we experience territories, we create stories. We model these stories using mental maps. A mental map refers to one person's point of view perception of their own world, and is influenced by that person's culture, background, mood and emotional state, instantaneous goals and objectives. In the density of cities, this process happens for potentially millions of people at the same time. In his work, "The Image of the City", Kevin Lynch (1960) described cities as complex time-based media, as symphonies produced by millions of people at the same time in their polyphonic way of acting, moving, interpreting, perceiving and transforming the ambient around themselves: a massive, emergent, real- time, dissonant and randomly harmonic work of time-based art with millions of authors that are changing all the time.