Sat 28 August 2010
14:30–16:00h
Duisburg-Ruhrort

Moderated by Söke Dinkla (de)

1. 14:30h | Alison Gazzard (gb): Datalogging the Landscape
2. 14:50h | Tara Pattenden (fi): Mapplers
3. 15:10h | Polise Moreira De Marchi (br): Re(cognition) Mapping. Redefining Space, Place and Territory
4. 15:30h | Margarete Jahrmann (at/ch), Verena Kuni (de): Developing Ludic Strategies and Interfaces for Participatory Practices in Urban Spaces

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P54 Ludic Maps (PDF, 149.36 KB)

Alison Gazzard (gb)

Datalogging the Landscape

The natural world allows us to leave our mark through the footsteps in the sand, or the wearing away of turf in creating short cuts to our destinations. GPS datalogging devices now enable us to track our routes through space. A walk across the worldly landscape can now be saved into the digital landscape, a world of multiple pixels and in many instances two-dimensional flat plains. This paper examines how we are re-mapping the landscape with this collected data and how GPS logging technologies may rework our understanding of these re-generated routes, trails and places.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Datalogging the Landscape (PDF)

Alison Gazzard is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in New Media at the University of Bedfordshire, GB. Her research examines the boundaries between the virtual, the real and the spaces in between most notably through videogames, augmented reality games and location-based media.

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Tara Pattenden (fi)

Mapplers

Tara Pattenden is a media artist exploring the intersection between technology and performance aesthetics. Underpinning her work is a sense of playfulness and the absurd. She is intrigued by prophecies of technology and enjoys creating technologies that are awkward, clumsy and intrusive. Recently she has been creating a collection of wearable instruments inspired by monsters and the unimaginable. She currently resides in Helsinki where she operates the project space Ptarmigan (ptarmigan) and is studying her masters in New Media at Aalto University's Media Lab.

Mapplers is a collaborative atlas created from hand-drawn maps. The hand-drawn maps are collected from participants who draw them for the purpose of navigation or explanation of space. When drawing a personal map like this, the creator’s knowledge and perception of the map space is revealed, for example by the landmarks they choose, what they omit, and how they describe things. Each map is a reflection with inaccuracies and idiosyncrasies that show how the creator relates to their environment, revealing their understanding and ways of knowing about the space. These inaccurate maps speak a different kind of cartographic language, mapping emotion, relationships and perception. Mapplers is an ongoing project that aims to eventually map much of the world. At this point in time it uses the Google Maps API to present the collaged maps. It is an open project that seeks participation from people interested to start geographic nodes.  Its current manifestations are of Brisbane (AU), Helsinki (FI) and parts of the Baltic region, and a project to collect maps is active in Los Angeles.
Further information: mapplers

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Polise Moreira De Marchi (br)

Re(cognition) Mapping. Redefining Space, Place and Territory

The new media, especially the locative one allows broad participation from all who live and interact in the city. The research project aims at establishing a students' proximity towards communication and production of the contemporary city through the use of mobile technology by means of images and videos. The ongoing project considers the very individual perception from the common citizen leveraged to a larger scale that ends up in a collaborative and inclusive map. An ever-green reinterpretation of physical cities and the meaning of urban life through digital media and interface design.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Re(cognition) Mapping. Redefining Space, Place and Territory (PDF)

Polise De Marchi (Ph.D.) is architect, urbanist and associate professor in the Digital Interface Design Graduate Course at SENAC University where she is also enrolled in the research: Information and Communication Technologies ICT applied to Design: interface [body, object, environment, city].

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Margarete Jahrmann (at/ch), Verena Kuni (de)

Developing Ludic Strategies and Interfaces for Participatory Practices in Urban Spaces

UPLAY is a workshop for artists and researchers involved in the development of ludic strategies and interfaces for forms of social/participatory/political (inter-)action in urban space. On the issues are a.o. locative strategies and tools for urban play, potentials and problems of participatory formats and collaborative/distributed/networked game development. Together we'll set up a game(-level) located at Ruhrort.
Further information: under-construction.cc/uplay-isea2010

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Developing Ludic Strategies and Interfaces for Participatory Practices in Urban Spaces (PDF)

Margarete Jahrmann is artist and professor for Interaction Design/Game Design at ZHDK Zurich. With the Ludic Society and individually she is engaged in the research and development of ludic interfaces, and she has recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis on Ludics. The Art and Politics of Play.
Further information: Konsum.net

Verena Kuni is scholar in art, media & culture theory and professor for Visual Culture at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Her research is dedicated a. o. to DIY & prosumer cultures; media of imagination; technologies of transformation; transfers between material & media cultures; games, play & toys as tools.
Further information: Under Construction.cc

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