Archive for December, 2004

Mapping LA

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

MAPPING LA, Marcela Oliva, Director
“Mapping LA is predicated on the notion that knowledge is power and information is change. The use of GIS technology has the potential to reveal relationships that underline each unique neighborhood. Furthermore, the nature of its graphical output - the map, can provide a highly effective nonverbal vehicle to communicate.
Mapping […]

The secret lives of objects

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

I love things like this.
The Wandering Moleskine Project
“The Wandering Moleskine Project is about Moleskine Notebooks travelling around the world. Several notebooks will be sent on their way from various points around the world, and scans of pages will be posted as they are filled.”
And be sure to check out the particularly lovely Le Moleskine a […]

From virtuality to hybridity

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

cross-posted at plsj
Adriana de Souza e Silva is a Senior Researcher in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, where she studies mobile communication technologies, “focusing on how these devices change social practices and the experience of urban spaces by means of location-based mobile games.”
Her 2004 PhD dissertation (pdf) on “nomadic technology devices […]

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