Using the smartphone to elucidate landscape experience: why our relationship with the smartphone is a game and how it can give us a deeper understanding of place and movement through space.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Journey toward a thesis
This has been an experiment in the act of creating place by walking different parts of Albuquerque, NM with a smartphone and placing symbols (5 QR codes/objects) with embedded information. These symbols, while an interesting aesthetic attraction also contain an embedded narrative only revealed by using your smartphone. They are signifiers of your presence in the place that is Landscape Elucidate that is a subset of the city. Landscape Elucidate then can be defined not only as a method employed to better understand your urban environment but it also becomes a unique place to inhabit during exploration. For those of you that visit this site, this will be the final entry for the project, but not the final entry period. My goal is to continue this research after graduation and have it take the form of a software application for your smartphone. I ask that you continue to check back for future developments. I welcome feedback from you about your own walks with a smartphone.
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