Category Archives: Travel

I'm collecting images from around the world depicting 'you are here' marks or ideo locators at Flickr. I'm fascinated by this mapping in context, in particular the relationship to local physical space. This is mapping with a a point of view, and maps as direct interface to the world. The best example to date is from Seoul, where 3D cross sections of a metro station are directly related to the point at which you are looking at the map.

Also posted in Graphic design, Information design, Mapping, Place, Research | 2 Comments

Design Engaged 2005

By Timo | November 20th, 2005

Here are my raw notes from the three days of excellent conversation, urban exploration and brainstorming of Design Engaged 2005.

Also posted in Conferences, Interaction design, Place, Ubicomp | Leave a comment

ISEA 2004 conference

By Timo | August 13th, 2004

Going to ISEA on a boat between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn and Tallinn today. I am updating photographs here, and have been posting some event notes over at polarfront.

Also posted in Art, Conferences, Mapping, Media, Place | Comments closed

Time that land forgot

By Timo | July 30th, 2004

Timo Arnall & Even Westvang.

At the Iceland inside and out workshop Even Westvang and Timo Arnall collaborated on a project looking at ways of contextualising photographs by time and geography. We chose to shift the balance of representation away from location, towards image and time. This is a summary of our ideas and process, with an initial working prototype.

Also posted in Art, Experience design, Mapping, Mobility, Narrative, Photography, Place, Project | Comments closed

Photography and mapping from Afar

By Timo | July 28th, 2004

My piece for ‘Afar’ in Copenhagen documents the time from 27 February to 19 May 2004. It presents a linear sequence of images alongside personal maps.

Also posted in Art, Conferences, Mapping, Narrative, Photography, Place, Project | Comments closed

Loop city workshop

By Timo | June 20th, 2004

Some notes from the 'loop city' workshop at Outside In in Goteborg.

Also posted in Conferences, Mapping, Mobility, Place, Social, Urbanism | Comments closed

Mobile outskirts workshop

By Timo | June 20th, 2004

Currently in Lofoten, Norway for the Mobile outskirts workshop.

Also posted in Art, General, Mapping, Media, Mobility, Place, Technology | Comments closed

Outside In

By Timo | June 15th, 2004

Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.

Also posted in Architecture, Art, Conferences, Experience design, Interaction design, Mapping, Media, Mobility, Place, Urbanism | Comments closed

Transcultural mapping workshops

By Timo | May 20th, 2004

I will be participating in the Transcultural mapping workshop in Lofoten in June. I am also participating in the ‘Loop City’ workshop at the Outside In symposium.

Also posted in Art, Conferences, Mapping, Place, Research | Comments closed

Travelogue

By Timo | March 25th, 2004

I have been treating digital photography as a narrative medium taking sequences of photographs to suggest movement, place, stories, journeys and discovery. In the near future I hope to to link images back to places using a GPS receiver, to produce some semi-automated travelogues. There is a lot of research to be done around contextualised imagery, and about mapping in relation to photography.

Also posted in Art, Mapping, Media, Narrative, Photography, Place, Urbanism | Comments closed