KARTOGRAPH MAPPING THE MOBILE CITY

TOC INTRODUCTION

- The Emergent City- Information Urban Networks- Barthes: Speaking the City

PROJECT SCOPE and PROJECT PLAN PROTOTYPE SPEAKING THE CITY - CONCLUSION

I’Park City by UNStudio, Suwon, South Korea

INTRODUCTION: THE EMERGENT CITY

The city experience is a web of connected networks and multi layered threaded paths that condition us to the emotional state of the city space. In essence, the city fabric is a giant multi user multi data sphere. To take part you really have to put something back in, that's like life. In this case, to take part you have to input data so others 'may' see the output of the data response.

- Fabian Neuhaus, The Emergent City, Urban Tick, 11 May 2010

URBAN INFORMATION NETWORKS

Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city's functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.

- HABITAR Project, aboralcentrodearte.org

Architectural rendering of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, designed by Foster + Partners.

Speaking the city: Barthes

Walking in the city, people invent their own urban idioms, a local language written in the streets, and read as if out loud. A strange city, too, can seem like a language you don’t know. Gradually, you pick up a few words, recognize certain expressions, try out some turn of phrase. Navigating the city, we compose spatial sentences that begin to make sense, gradually master the intricate grammar of the streets. Slowly, we learn to make the spaces of the city speak.

- Space, the city and social theory: social relations and urban forms by Fran Tonkiss

Evan Hecox, Kyoto Street, 2004

Tracking the movement of a mouse on a screen for 1.9 hours using IOGraphica, flickr.com

PROJECT SCOPE

PROJECT SCOPETechnical Requirements• Cloud Hosting and server farm• KML markup language• Cocoon and Cocoa iPhone development• Web 2.x application development technologies meeting web standards and

requirements• Graphical design• APIs – Google, Twitter, Trendsmap and others• Ushahidi platform for web client integration and data analysisEnd-user Requirements• A late model iPhone: iPhone 3 or greater• AT&T provider servicesDeliverables• An iPhone app available from Apple’s iTunes store• Web site promoting iPhone application• Social media integration: partnership with Facebook, for example

PROJECT PLAN

KARTOGRAPH FEATURES•Allows users to explore their cities and their urban environment•Map their travels in a custom map of visited locations or desired sites to visit•Voice-Record narratives as tweets and walking tours•Attach geotagged maps, images, and tweets•Filter views with AR location maps•Filter on location-based trends sourced from Brizzly, Foursquare, Trendsmap and Twitter•Filter on key tags such as News, Traffic, Police and Fire•Filter on text and voice tags•Share locations via social networks and email; sync with Facebook

GPS and Navigate

Map and Filter by

Trend

Save recorded location and trip history

Connect with

others

Social Media

KARTOGRAPH FEATURES

KARTOGRAPH FEATURES•Allows users to explore their cities and their urban environment•Map their travels in a custom map of visited locations or desired sites to visit•Voice-Record narratives as tweets and walking tours•Attach geotagged maps, images, and tweets•Filter views with AR location maps•Filter on location-based trends sourced from Brizzly, Foursquare, Trendsmap and Twitter•Filter on key tags such as News, Traffic, Police and Fire•Filter on text and voice tags•Share locations via social networks and email; sync with Facebook

AR VIEWS

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Speaking the city: Barthes

[Roland Barthes’] urban semiotics takes the city not simply as text to be read, but as a vivid mobile language to be spoken. Cities are for Barthes both a kind of writing and the urban user a ‘kind of reader’), and a manner of speaking. ‘The city’, as he puts it, ‘speaks to its inhabitants, we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it’ (Barthes, 1997: 168).

- Space, the city and social theory: social relations and urban forms by Fran Tonkiss

Marrakech Souk, Morocco, flickr.com

Language students use the mobile phone in their daily life – both as students and as ordinary citizens (Chen 2007). They use their mobile phones to they take photos of friends and the places they visit. They send photos as MMS to their contacts or send them to their own Internet site. They are able to download and play media files such as music or short films. They can access the Internet and check their emails. Moreover, they can search for a variety of services on the Internet. If they wish to locate a street, they can, for example use “Google maps” which can be downloaded in their phones.Bo-Kristensen, M, Ankerstjerne, N. O, Wulff, C, and Schelde, H. “Mobile City and Language Guides - New Links Between Formal and Informal Learning Environments” Electronic Journal of e-Learning Volume 7 Issue 2 2009, (pp85 - 92), available online at www.ejel.org