Mon, 2 March 2009  We spoke with Sarah Moynihan and Norm Horton, of FeralArts, in Brisbane, Australia about their efforts on PlaceStories.com. Joining us was Mimi Pickering, the longtime media educator from Appalshop in Whitesburg, Ky. Placestories has become a site for locative media engaged in social activism and community-engaged planning efforts. The interview was on Feb. 12, 2009. |
Tue, 16 January 2007  Sarah Mattern and Seamus Byrne were graduate students at Cal State East Bay when they developed Organic City, a website to have people map their stories around Oakland, California. The site demonstrates how community can be built using geography as the principal metaphor. The site also explores the mix ways to use content, from the web-based exploration, to podcast walking tours to be experienced on-site. |
Sun, 7 January 2007  Abbe Don is a long time associate of CDS that has recently been working in research with Hewlett Packard. Working with KQED and the Digital Storytelling Festival in 2005, she directed "Scape the Hood", a special project that used HP's Ipaq pocket PC's and GPS to create a walking tour of the Mission Neighborhood near KQED. Here she talks about her background in relationship to this interest in place-based storytelling. |
Sat, 30 December 2006  Over the last several years, our principal inspiration for exploring place-based storytelling more deeply has been the success of Murmur, the project of Shawn Micallef and Gabe Sawhney that uses cell phone technology to distribute stories about place. Their website, murmurtoronto.ca, has examples of most of their projects to date, including their recent project in San Jose. We spoke with Shawn about his experience in developing the project, and the lessons they have learned about creating these stories. |
