http://aware.uiah.fi/ian/index.php
... introduction ...
As one said, “The city happens”. It happens not just for you, and the people you know, but also for the people you don’t know. Interacting in, and with, public space you and others are maintaining a relationship not just with each other, but also to the surrounding environment. The lived experience of a place, what you and others do in it, and how it is perceived, is dynamic and always changing over time. It is a spatio-temporal diary, unwritten but fluid in material.
Personal memory gathers, shifts and adapts according to activity, event and journey. It may be associated to someone, or anonymous, and it may be of importance to someone else. Ups and downs, special occasions or everyday minutia; Fantastical obsession or critical reality, loves, frustrations and desires. Sometimes these experiences spill into the collective domain as story, rumour, history and scandal, documented in the media with vested interest. But rarely can you contribute to the collective domain, even though it happens to you.
Different locations hold various levels of significance and value for different people, with few channels of opportunity to listen, adjust, reflect or cherish its significance, and its relation to the larger ‘happening’ of collective experience around it. All gather to the biography of the place – but maybe you have not yet become aware...
... aims | about ...
The aware project proposes an experimental location-based medium for mediating fluid memory, ‘story-making’, and aims to facilitate the (playful or critical) re-imagination of the lived city of Helsinki.
It explores the positive potential of widespread use of networked, mobile media devices to raise awareness of communal relationships with place, and the real-time organisation/disorganisation of spatio-temporal meaning.
The project concept is to enable participants to contribute images, sounds and text via their mobile device to a collective online database, to be rebroadcast to the public environment of their origin, either anonymously or tagged with a user-name. However the contributions may be moved around to other cell locations in the city, re-interpreting their meaning and potential relationship to other forms and place.
These website pages present the current stage of the concept production, using mock-location cells in the Kallio-Sörnainen-Hermanni-Arabia corridor of Helsinki, and has been developed by John Evans, Markus Ort, Andrew Paterson and Aki-Ville Pöykiö for the Interactive Audio-Visual Narrative Production course at the Media Lab UIAH, Helsinki, February – May 2003.
http://aware.uiah.fi/ian/links.html
Posted by walkinginplace at January 25, 2005 12:28 AM