The Pervasive Monuments project is in full, almost incomprehensible swing, and the swirling mass of ideas, issues and things to consider seems to multiply by the second. We’ve been looking at is the notion of a monument, or rather, a digital or “pervasive” monument as not just a static thing or even a static experience, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘place’
The Hunt
Friday, June 25th, 2010The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side of the Highway
Friday, June 4th, 2010Being a product of the sprawling wasteland that is suburban Cleveland, Ohio, (most recently voted the most miserable place to live in the US by Forbes magazine) I can attest that I am no fan of suburbs. This is because I spent roughly two thirds of my life in a place that required me to [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 8 – Finito)
Friday, May 14th, 2010Ooof. Well its all over and Sara, Helena, Nikola, Oleg and Josip did me proud. On top of managing to deal with an extremely hard brief (inventing a currency for instance) and not being allowed to use a slideshow for their final presenation, they really did it. The final presentation was great, a couple of [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 6-7)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Day 6 -7 Everyone was really hammering it down and getting down to work. They started getting down to building the mobile and the stationary joke exchange centre and I was really pleased to see that the students started working on a website to trade jokes, thus completing the system in an unexpected and really [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You To Me” workshop (Day 3-5)
Monday, May 10th, 2010Day 3 – Place #1 Place #1 was where things were supposed to be happening after establishing Home for the groups. Place #1 is somewhere the groups could walk to and they were to meet someone there and initiate some sort of exchange. The groups went out into Maribor and learned quite quickly that guerilla [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” workshop (Day 1-2)
Saturday, May 8th, 2010So they’ve begun. My students, Oleg, Sara, Helena, Nikola and Josip are now taking over the city of Maribor and learning the hard way that places, people and interactions don’t always come together very easily. Here’s what they were dealing with Day 1 – Home There just may be, and if there isn’t there should [...]
Magdalena International Festival on Creative Communication (Maribor, Slovenia) 6 – 16 May, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010http://magdalena.org/ I’m going to be running an interaction design workshop with these guys Demitrios & Dash who I should probably know somehow. Having attended Magdalena in 2004, I can say its a great time (with great wine) and does a lot to bring together designers in the region. More info to follow hopefully soon on [...]
Spomenik
Saturday, November 28th, 2009www.spomenik.org Spomenik is now part of the Pervasive Monuments project run by Horizon Digital Economy Research run out of the University of Nottingham (UK). Pervasive Monuments began in reality while I was working with Dave Kirk ( now a lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Nottingham University) at Microsoft Research Cambridgewhere we were both working on the Family Archive project. [...]