As we move through the city we engage in an evolving dialogue with time and space. Our techniques of annotating these places and moments should not be defined by the limitations of technologies, nor by the constraints of current metaphors.
How do we retain an essential 'mobility' to the way we mark and move through the city, or are we simply creating a network of static places?
In the rush to be more and more 'accurate' in our annotations, are we perhaps missing the point about place – that is is not so easily defined by a set of coordinates, but floats free encompassing time as well as space?
Can we design systems that incorporate temporal annotations of space – such as the length of time an experience lasts as we walk through a park, along a street?
How will these experiences pervade our sense of movement and how we occupy spaces?
What sort of granularities of annotation will we want that scale between points of interest and zones and attention?
Posted by Giles Lane at February 13, 2004 05:34 PM