17 January.
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Graffiti as conversation
I’ve been photographing layers of conversation in graffiti, and tagging the pictures with conversation. Prior art for spatial annotation?
28 February 2005
Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004
Here is my presentation [pdf] and presentation notes from Design Engaged 2004. Lots of pretty pictures of stickers, tags, flyposting and such. I will chip in with Dan, Adam, Matt, Molly and Fabio to say that this has been the conference highlight of the year.
15 November 2004
Outside In
Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.
15 June 2004
Public markup
This research looks at the marking of public space by investigating the physical annotation of the city: stickering, graffiti and billboards. It attempts to find patterns in this marking practice by looking at visibility, techniques, process, location, content and audience. It proposes ways in which this marking can be used as a layer between the physical city, and digital spatial annotation.
17 May 2004
Creative Crossings workshop
Creative Crossings was organised by m-cult, banff centre and arts council england to bring together practitioners from Britain, Canada and Finland to discuss participatory and creative applications for the development of mobile/located and cross-platform media. It was a research based event looking at practice in contemporary media arts.
28 April 2004
Urban GPS experience
Using a GPS receiver in dense urban areas requires constant attention to avoid losing satellite signals. My photography is suffering because I am constantly trying to get satellites instead of looking.
12 April 2004
Travelogue
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.
25 March 2004
Architecture theory books
My books on architectural theory, urban planning, history and research.
3 February 2004
Mobile interaction design case study
A mobile social entertainment system designed in 2001 for Pollen Mobile in the UK. This case study shows some of the processes used in the design of the service.
4 June 2001
Selected Flickr
