Name: Katharina Andreasen
Birthplace: Aarhus
Birthday: 12-05-87
Colour of my hair: Brown Colour of my eyes: Blue
My studies: Majoring in Art History and hopefully studying Scandinavian language and literature this summer.
My hobbies: Art, badminton, friends & family
My favourite film: Everything Tim Burton & Pedro Almodóvar are directing.
My favourite book: Jostein Gaarder: Kabalemysteriet
My pets: The cat Coco Chanel
My favourite dish: Cupcake
My thoughts on Communicating (in) the City:I'm interested in learning how the city communicates and makes use of spaces and places without necessarily using spoken words.
What I want to become when I grow up: Senior high school teacher (!)
My personal map: My last week 
Categories: Artist, everyday mapping, map of resistance, map hacking.
My hybrid space: http://communicity2010.wikidot.com/katharina-andreasen-hybrid-space
My own “communicating (in) the city” experience:
1) What is your most memorable experience from this course? It could be with regards to readings, artworks or your assignments.
a. I like the task where we each had to draw a route in the snow from our home to school. It was a good 'teaser' for the following assignments where we for the fist time tried to make use of the theories in practice.
2) Name the text that you liked the most (or that you learned most from)(or that provoked you the most). Why?
a. I liked the texts of Guy-Ernest Debord and the introduction to the Situationist. I felt this subject was in line with my major which made it the more interesting.
3) Name one thing that you have learned from the readings (or, which text did you like the most? Why?)
a. I learnt many different things, but the text I liked the most was Tying Down Loose Space by Karen A. Franck and Quetin Stevens. Their reflections on space is simillar to discussions we had in another subject (Visuel Kultur 2), and it was interested to hear more about the subject from a different viewpoint.
4) Which artwork/ artifact/ performance presented in class did you like the most (or provoked you the most). Why?
a. I liked the examples of different kinds of flash mobs on youtube. I didn’t know what a flash mob was beforehand, but thought it was very interesting concept.
It reminds me a bit of Nicolas Bourriaud’s theories on Relational Aesthetics where art interventions bring people together through experiences.
Another interesting aspect of the concept is how it has been incorporated into commercials, and how commercials and art have been intertwined through the last century. As well as how art is taken outside the museums and into the everyday.
5) What was your reply to the assignments? List them all and think about how to present them – as a whole – to others; as a collection, what have they contributed with to this course?
6) Which assignment do you find most in line with the course content? Why?
a. I thought all the assignment was in line with the course content. Each assignment referred to the reading packs for each class and gave a better understanding of the texts. Especially the last assignment (the Mis-Guide) was quite interesting because it incorporates the other assignments in different ways.
Assignment number 4, where we had to make an audio-stand was my least favorite. The assignment was more of a technical task for me, where questions like: How do I record the sound and how do I upload it to the internet, were more in focus than the actual content of the sound.
There were more reflections in regard to the other tasks, where we for example had to incorporate some quotes from the texts. This help to give a better understanding of the reading packs which I thought assignment four lacked.
7) Which of your assignment replies would be most suited a mis-guide.
a. I think the mandatory assignment 2, where everyone had to make a personal and subjective map of Aarhus, and assignment 5, where we had to make a .walk was most suited as a mis-guide.
Assignment 2 show resemblence of Wrights & Sites “An Exeter Mis-Guide” because of the fact that it is very site specific. Whereas assignment 5 or the .walk reminds me of “A Mis-Guide to Anywhere”. The .walk as well as “A Mis-Guide to Anywhere” are constructed walks that can be used anywhere and therefore non site specific.
In these two assignments one has to follow a map which forces one to move around and experience the city compared to the other assignments where one had to make an audio-stand (4) or document a Hybrid Space (3). These assignments go into details with particular places in the city, whereas they don’t make the user experience the city as a whole differently but merely exact locations.
8) Why? What could be changed in order for it to become a better mis-guide?
a. For example, in order to make assignment 4 better as a mis-guide, one could have recorded many different audio-stands and put them together as a whole (or taken all students independent audio-stands and put them together). The user then had to listen to the first recorded sound bit and then go to a place in the city where the user think this sound bit has been recorded. Thereafter the user listen to the next sound bit in line and go where one think this sound bit has been recorded and so on.
