February 22, 2004
It's Coming
An update for the eleven people and one robot who have looked at this site so far: the Drift Table is now repaired, and will be installed in my room on Friday, 27th February.
In the meantime, have a peep at Urban Tapestries for thoughts on collaborative cartography, public authoring and annotating space, or make for Thomas Angermann's Pedestrianistic round trip, a collection of links concerning people walking in cities.
Both pointers purloined from Anne Galloway.
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February 09, 2004
Tangential Linking
Ideas that relate, in one way or another, to the Drift Table.
Experiments in Mixed Reality - Matt Adams of Blast Theory talks about 'overlaying real and virtual spaces' with regard to mobile phones and Blast Theory's recent adventures in linking virtual and real spaces.
(For some reason I'm stuck on the idea of a next generation Drift Table as a mapping interface to mobile devices. Presumably because I read too much Purse Lip Square Jaw, from whence the link comes.)
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Locative Media
The Drift Table was damaged in transit, so I won't be getting to play with it until later this week.
In the meantime, here's a rant about 'critical design' inspired by the Drift Table showing up at Gizmodo after my post at MetaFilter.
See also: an interesting set of notes on Locative Media Concepts (.pdf), touching on everything from FOAF to spatial annotation to micropayments.
[via Space & Culture]
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February 03, 2004
Psychogeography
How do ideas surrounding the Situationist's psychogeographical investigations sit with the Drift Table? Is a dérive still a dérive if you're not really there?
- Psychogeography
- The study of the precise effects of geographical setting, consciously managed or not, acting directly on the mood and behaviour of the individual (Internationale Situationiste, 1, June 1958).
- Dérive
- An experimental mode of behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique for hastily passing through varied environments (Internationale Situationiste, 1, June 1958).
Some links:
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Drift Surveillance
Matt Jones points to Nokia's Waypoint system. With a snap-on GPRS module, the 5140 phone can save your location, and send it via SMS.
Link the Drift Table to a system like this - with the table receiving location data via SMS at regular intervals - and you have a lovely, low-key tracking system.
Say your beloved is on holiday, and you miss them awfully, a quick reassuring look at the table, and you make a tiny connection with them. I like this sort of vague, peripheral, micro-communication - see also Matt Webb's Glancing application
(Update: more on Glancing)
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