# Place

> 25 posts tagged Place on Timo Arnall's site, 2001 to 2009: Sniff; Skål; You are here; Graphic language for touch; Design Engaged 2005; Graffiti as…

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- [Sniff](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/09/sniff/) (2009): A soft toy dog that 'sniffs' and reacts to objects that come close to his nose. Made with Sara Johansson and Einar Sneve Martinussen, Touch project, 2009.
- [Skål](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/skaal/) (2009): Skål is a media player for the home that uses physical objects placed in a wooden bowl to play back related media on the TV. Touch project, 2009.
- [You are here](https://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/you-are-here/) (2006): A 2006 note on collecting ‘you are here’ marks, ideo locators that map in context, with a point of view. The best example so far is Seoul’s metro, with 3D cross sections of the station.
- [Graphic language for touch](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/graphic-language-for-touch/) (2005): Graphic design for near-field interaction at Design Engaged 2005, an early attempt at a visual language for the touch-point where phone meets tag.
- [Design Engaged 2005](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/design-engaged-2005/) (2005): Notes from Design Engaged 2005 in Berlin: Adam Greenfield on energy decline, Anne Galloway on the parliament of things, Fabio Sergio on whether interaction design has any material at all.
- [Graffiti as conversation](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/graffiti-as-conversation/) (2005): A short 2005 observation: photographing layers of conversation in graffiti, prior art for spatial annotation on shared public surfaces.
- [Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/11/spatial-memory-design-engaged/) (2004): Notes from my Design Engaged 2004 presentation: the Time that land forgot project with Even Westvang, and the research on marking in urban public space.
- [Design Engaged 2004](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/11/design-engaged/) (2004): Notes from Design Engaged 2004 in Amsterdam: Ben Cerveny on metadata accretion, Adam Greenfield on ubicomp ethics, Dan Hill on self-centred design, Matt Webb, Jack Schulze and Matt Jones.
- [Public marking photographs](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/09/public-marking-photographs/) (2004): A 2004 Flickr set of images of stickering, graffiti and flyposting, supporting material for the research into spatial annotation.
- [ISEA 2004 conference](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/08/isea/) (2004): ISEA 2004: the conference held on a Silja Line ferry between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn and Tallinn, with a pointer to Grandtextauto's writeup of the installations.
- [Time that land forgot](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/timeland/) (2004): Timo Arnall and Even Westvang, 2004, from the Iceland inside-and-out workshop: contextualising photographs by time and geography.
- [Photography and mapping from Afar](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/afar/) (2004): My piece for ‘Afar’ in Copenhagen, 2004, nine boards of images paired with GPS maps, documenting movement between London and Oslo over three months.
- [Geo-referenced photography](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/geo-referenced-photography/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of papers, projects and tools for geo-referencing photographs by combining camera timestamps with GPS tracklogs.
- [Loop city workshop](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/loop-city/) (2004): Loop City notes from Outside In Gothenburg: Bill Hillier on cities as movement economies, space syntax, relative space, taxicab geometry.
- [Mobile outskirts workshop](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/mobile-outskirts/) (2004): Notes from the 2004 Mobile Outskirts workshop in Lofoten, a 15-hour bus ride from Trondheim to the islands with a bus full of GPS receivers and cameras.
- [Outside In](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/outside-in/) (2004): Notes from Outside In, a two-day forum at Röda Sten in Gothenburg, June 2004, on new voices, media and practices in the design and use of public space.
- [Mobile social software applications](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/mobile-social-software/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of mobile social software: Jabberwocky, Fluidtime, Dodgeball, Plazes, Mamjam, the first wave of location-aware services before smartphones.
- [Spatial annotation projects](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/spatial-annotation/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of spatial annotation projects: Murmure, Yellow Arrow, Grafedia, Urban Tapestries and dozens of others from the locative-media field.
- [Transcultural mapping workshops](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/05/transcultural-mapping/) (2004): Announcement: participating in the Transcultural mapping workshop in Lofoten in June 2004, and the Loop City workshop at the Outside In symposium.
- [Public markup](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/05/public-markup/) (2004): Research notes on the marking of public space: stickering, graffiti and billboards, looking for patterns in visibility, techniques, process, location, content and audience.
- [Creative Crossings workshop](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/04/creative-crossings/) (2004): Notes on Creative Crossings, a 2004 m-cult / Banff / Arts Council England workshop on mobile media with UK, Canadian and Finnish practitioners.
- [Urban GPS experience](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/04/urban-gps/) (2004): Field notes on the Garmin GPS Map 60c in Oslo and London: three months of trying to record clean GPS tracks to geo-locate photography, from the pavement and public transport.
- [Travelogue](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/03/travelogue/) (2004): A 2004 note on digital photography as a narrative medium, sequences of photos that suggest movement and journey, and plans to tie them to GPS.
- [Architecture theory books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/02/architecture-theory/) (2004): A reading list on architecture theory: Calvino's Invisible Cities, Bachelard, Tschumi, Mitchell's City of Bits, Le Corbusier, Iain Borden.
- [Mobile interaction design case study](https://www.elasticspace.com/2001/06/mobile-interaction-design-case-study/) (2001): A 2001 case study for Pollen Mobile / Mamjam: SMS-driven location-based social entertainment for people in the same venue.
