StoryMapping
Darcy Alexandra passed on this amazing project to me. The Center for Digital Storytelling has an interesting project exploring the application of digital storytelling to mapping and place-understanding. StoryMapping in their own words is:"StoryMapping is a call to action. We are taking the lessons learned from more than a decade of work in Digital Storytelling, and integrating it with an emergent tool set of digital mapping technologies now available to the broad public.
Whether it is geo-tagging images on Flickr, building story-based GoogleMaps, developing Windows Live virtual tours, organizing local cell phone walking tours, or the permanent imbedding stories into locations to be received by Bluetooth and other wireless information, we can now create maps that share stories about the places that matter to us, and place our life stories in countless geographic contexts."
It could be an exciting possibility to explore similar synergies between archaeological visualisation techniques and digital storytelling in the context of Placing Voices / Voicing Places. This could help erode divisions between tangible and intangible in the context of heritage - as well as undercut temporal divisions between the 'past' and the 'present' in the understanding of management of heritage - particularly in diverse complex inner-city areas.
Labels: Digital Storytelling
posted by Ian Alden Russell @ Thursday, September 18, 2008
2 Comments:
yes, there is a Canadian guy who made projects like this here in Galway, and in the Dublin Docklands in recent years, it certainly is very interesting. This morning I read Vito Acconci talking about his performance pieces where he would follow strangers around New York City. Really edgy stuff, great!
Yeah Sean. Murmur was the project that was down in the Docklands in Dublin. I think it was developed by the same people.
It didn't work quite as well as it sounded though. Since the access to the stories was through mobile phones, it kept people cut off from access (either from not having a phone, or not having credit/money to afford the call).
Interestingly though, the metal signs from Murmur (green ears) are still around the area. So there is something of an archaeological landscape to be discovered.
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