Main idea for this (mini-) project is to create experimental fortune-telling website for urban mobility as well as сard deck to play and do «urban» fortune-telling without using computer.
Website has simple organization. There are only two buttons with main world-view oppositions – being/not being yourself. Both buttons just lead to random selection from the set of cards, each connected with some place in Vilnius. Cards are followed by short abstract captions, standard for online fortune-telling, for example, «someone needs you», «mutual feelings», etc. Every caption has positive meaning, to set the mood for user to hope for better future in both cases – being and trying not to be yourself.
Main idea for playing cards is to base them on some collected map-like visuals. What makes them map-like? Sense of surface, landscape, bird-eye view, grid, scale, etc.
Whole concept is about questioning the role of our desires in urban mobility and how much it is based on the interpretation. How map and mobility itself can be not functional and rational but random and magical? If map is any maplike representation how far can graphic designer go using mapping as the main method of work with urban reality?
Key concepts and oppositions to which I want to draw attention to: space/non-space, self/ non-self, mapping/cartography, randomization, gamification, fortune, urban desire.
