Motion Studies

An atlas of movement

Cities move twice

Once through space.
Once through data.

From geography to connection An abstract transport network. Cyan, pink and amber journeys follow winding routes that become straight diagram lines, meeting at shared stations. This is a schematic composition, not a live timetable.
Distance becomes connection.A schematic motion study

Motion Studies is a catalogue of authored works and research about transport, geography, and the patterns that movement reveals.

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The catalogue

Studies of place.
Patterns of movement.

  1. 005 Live study Gleislicht Switzerland A deliberately built national clockwork, revealed through rail, terrain, Takt, air and road.
  2. 006 Live study All Change London Physical London transforms into Beck-space while every journey continues uninterrupted.
  3. 008 Live study Correspondances Paris Métro circulation and outward RER eruptions expose the relationship between centre and banlieue.
  4. — Research study LUFT Europe A recorded day of aircraft movement reveals the continent through its routes, airport rhythms and accumulating traces.
  5. — Research study PFAD Switzerland A real road search, replayed at human scale, reveals the chosen route and the paths not taken.

The instrument

Movement is not one kind of knowledge.

01

Scheduled

Timetables become interpolated journeys: the intended choreography of a city.

02

Observed

Broadcast positions become smoothed trajectories: visitors crossing above the plan.

03

Reconstructed

Aggregate flow and speed become particles: measured traffic without imagined tracking.

Not a dashboard. Not a universal map skin. Each work begins with a place, a source, and a visual claim that would stop making sense anywhere else.