Undergraduate Diploma Thesis

The diploma thesis aims to research the relation between the construction of space and the transmission of constructed images that are integrated in the media sphere.

The technological growth of the last decades has managed, on the one hand, to create tools and tool clusters that dissolve information and on the other hand, to speed up its spreading as well as, its connection with the human sensory system. 

Having said that, we find ourselves in between a fuzzy cloud, where news feed and reality, information and entertainment, truth and lie lose balance between their limits. 

By these terms, we attempted to translate the intangible nature of information into a material version of itself by recreating a minivan and turning it into a platform that has the ability to construct reality. 

The minivan is now equipped with office furniture, dressing room, a customized toolbox, containing the tools needed in order for the users to create a composite piece of information, and a new name, Infectious Trans.Motor (i.trans.motor). 

The users adopt a tactic as follows: 

– Visit the desired area, as long as it makes a good set.

– Use the i.trans.motor equipment in order to create an audiovisual documentation.

– Process /Alternate, as needed, the documented product.

– Transmit the manufactured information to mass media. 

While researching the relation between information and production of built-up space, we decided to engage i.trans.motor in three scenarios of transformations concerning the city of Volos. These transformations are being referred to as antivirus and the piece of information that is needed to make them necessary, as virus. 

This play of words is used in order to emphasize on the role of news in mind setting, the desires it can create by pointing out or constructing gaps and the compulsive parochialism of its victims in the sake of salvation. 

But the question still remains: Can a vehicle construct reality?