I found this on a blog that I follow. "Blinking City" is a chalk pastel piece that is a collage of various Hutong neighborhoods in Beijing, China. It is stenciled onto a wall of a home's courtyard. The colors showcase the changing events of the city. Each color has a meaning as shown on the project's website: http://www.instanthutong.com/blinkingcity_stencil.htm. I'm a bit confused by their meaning, but maybe it will be more clear to the rest of you.
The point of the piece is to showcase "the inadequacy of traditional maps for city environments characterized by fast pace transformation and urban growth. As soon as the map is done, the city it describes has already gone."
How then, can one continue to map a city as they grow and change so quickly? How quickly is an anthropological study outdated with these rapid changes? It makes me wonder if Stoller's research is still valid, or if his subjects have taken on a different way of doing business and a different way of living since he did his study.
An image of the piece is below:
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