Critical Humdrum

Critical Humdrum is focused upon the tensions between the physicality of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter and it’s social architectures, and how these tensions shape the experience of everyday life for locals. It is a key-based map describing mundane yet critical places, which contribute to a social and survivalist topographical depiction of the area. Designed to bring you on an alternative tour of points and nodes around the area, the map will highlight unspoken activities and their locations. Playfully between fact and fiction, the user is drawn to find the extraordinary in the street corners such as the discovery of Accidental Architectural Genius, Drug Exchange Points, Important Pubs, Semtex Stores, Outdoor Disco locations, an MI5 Bunker and suggested places to shack up for the night if one is penniless.