Aesthetics Of Exclusion

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Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar should be classified as ‚gentrified’. While swiping, different cities, streets, years and neighborhoods will be compared on a live webpage that functions as a scoreboard. The subjective input of different groups of users will be used to train different computer models that can recognize and generate images that are perceived as gentrified.

13th October '19

News | 22nd September '20

StreetSwipe featured in NRC newspaper

Dutch newspaper NRC featured StreetSwipe in the news paper of 22nd of September 2020. Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe…

News | 7th September '20

Podcast MENS (Vrij Nederland)

Please listen to the Podcast MENS of magazine Vrij Nederland where journalist Sander Pleij interviewed Sjoerd ter Borg about Aesthetics of Exclusion.

News | 18th August '20

StreetSwipe Label Party

Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar…

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14th August '19

When two StreeView cars almost kiss

Since 2005 several companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Kakao (Daum), started to develop systems to digitally map urban and rural areas across the world, using various types of vehicles and cameras to create 360° views, creating a growing visual urban archive. In Amsterdam we stumbled across two StreetView…

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1st October '18

On Aesthetics of Exclusion

It is over a decade ago that Richard Florida introduced the “rise of the creative class”. If decaying cities wanted to survive, they had to open cool bars, shabby-chic coffee shops, and art venues that attract young, educated, and tolerant residents. Eventually, the mysterious alchemy of the creative economy would…

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