In Else/where mapping I came across the work of the Urban Tapestries (UT) Project. I liked that their research was open to personal interpretation. The project “Allows people to author their own virtual annotations of the city, enabling a communities collective memory to grow organically”
I really like the interaction here. And how this is about mapping people’s experience of their city. It isn’t top down, it’s personal.
“A new software application for urban exploration has interlaced London with narrative threads, as participants in trial runs of UT map their individual experiences of the city via a network of handheld computers. “...The map had no directions, points of interest or even street names. It was up to the participants to go outside and ‘write their city’ by marking the places they visited and sharing their stories and impressions through the network.”
Else/where Mapping
http://urbantapestries.net/
http://research.urbantapestries.net/
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