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February 22, 2005
readings for Feb 22nd
Urban Tapestries
The redivision of the publicspace is a interesting arena. there is a new balance of how spaces to be developed. Once architechs designed the their builds with a specific public space in mind. It is interesting to look at is what they thought of a space 50 years ago and what is is used for today, and how todays designs focus on something that may not be tomorrow.
While the above is a digression, the ideas are important to think about then think about the threads of "MEAT SPACE" and the Virtual World.
The Urban Tapestries system enables users to create a relationships between geographic places via the creation of pockets and threads.
Pockets are the relationship a user makes to a specific geographic place... ...and contain the media the user chooses to associate with that place... ...Threads are the thematic relationships between pockets and geographic places and can vary from the practical, 'Fair Trade Goods Sold Here' to the personal, 'My Favourite Bars & Cafes'.
What happens to a space when it is completely tagged by many? There is an interesting source for datamining. take the multiple inputs for the various visitors and users of the space and slice it across all these plains and view where the in/consistances are.
Zagats of this world maybe able to look to a truly impartial census taking.
Posted by dimitri at February 22, 2005 10:42 AM