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. |
