Abstract
The fundamental function of maps has always been to understand, interpret, and represent the world. Therefore, maps have a communication role, as a language. As communication tool, maps spatialize the interaction of social, economic and cultural urban realities in a graphic expression that provides the very meaning of urban systems. The aim of this paper is to report an academic study involving digital interface design graduate students. They investigated the role of locative media as potential instruments for registering and mapping experiences, observations and perceptions of urban life. This study considers that students can stimulate interactions across the city, whether, directly, in its physical space or, indirectly, through interfaces such as cell phone applications. The project also sought to discuss the cell phone as a producer of new languages, since instead of being merely a telephone it combines the functions of different media and can produce images, videos, sounds etc.
Highlights
The city concentrates all the metaphors of the digital age: network, interface, interaction, territory, representation and connection
Mobile devices as locative2 media play a fundamental role by potentializing the generation and dissemination of information in city spaces and, the production of new cartographies as the user becomes a potential builder of urbanlocalized databases
The main question addressed by the project was “how to provide new ways of understanding the urban environment in São Paulo by means of experiencing and registering its urban daily life through mobile phones, considered as locative multimedia tools, and transforming the collected data into different cartographies of the city”, specially for those who will work as designers in this urban context
Summary
The city concentrates all the metaphors of the digital age: network, interface, interaction, territory, representation and connection. The main question addressed by the project was “how to provide new ways of understanding the urban environment in São Paulo by means of experiencing and registering its urban daily life through mobile phones, considered as locative multimedia tools, and transforming the collected data into different cartographies of the city”, specially for those who will work as designers in this urban context. This question was formulated following what was pointed out by Emerson The last stage was to confront the different maps, combining them into a panoramic view of different representations of the city using mobile and locative technologies
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