soil type
waterflow
salinity
stream edge/overflow area
things found (insects, fish, plants, pollution or rubbish?)
sediment
width of channel
length of stream
temporary streams ("ephemeral stream")
canopy type
temperature
depth
how might two or more of these be documented in relation to each other to talk about that water's story? Could I map, for example, several stream's depths in different rainfall conditions, and what I find there?
Another type of story? Progression/ travel:
Waitemata Harbour -> Orakei Basin -> Omaru Creek -> Taranaki River-> Panmure Basin -> Pakuranga Creek.
A website I found interesting talks about different spatial scales of rivers and streams, the flows between source and mouth (http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/rivers-and-streams-life-in-flowing-water-16819919). Biological community changes along the length of rivers, due to changes in oxygen level which relates to the speed of water flow, temperature, depth, debris and canopy-type. These factors are all very interrelated, and I'm beginning to think about how to document these (information-collection and visual communication). I'm still not sure what kind of data I will be collecting, but I am sure I want to collect it at certain intervals along a body of water. This way I can communicate the story of a water body and its changes as it travels.
Showing posts with label story. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
thoughts from class 03/08
One thing that struck me today: the way that a powerful, well-known story can totally precede the place name itself.
Think New Orleans and not flooding, the Twin Towers and not terrorism, Chernobyl or Hiroshima without nuclear disaster and (now maybe) Christchurch without earthquake. The event, or story, is what comes to mind first. There is something very powerful about a story, the telling of a place and something that happened there.
How do I tell the story of Auckland's water?
What would a story of water look like?
-where it comes from, what it travels through, how it is treated, where it ends up? how it is used?
Think New Orleans and not flooding, the Twin Towers and not terrorism, Chernobyl or Hiroshima without nuclear disaster and (now maybe) Christchurch without earthquake. The event, or story, is what comes to mind first. There is something very powerful about a story, the telling of a place and something that happened there.
How do I tell the story of Auckland's water?
What would a story of water look like?
-where it comes from, what it travels through, how it is treated, where it ends up? how it is used?
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