During today's meeting we discussed the possibility of using an sms system as a technical starting point. We proposed to start imagining interfaces displaying a silhouetted landscape of Edinburgh that will be informed and "coloured" with sms messages sent by pedestrians. The idea is to adhere stickers around the sites of interest inviting the walker to send a text with their impressions or thoughts on the building or monument in question, and then we will call those messages and display them creating a dynamic textual facade for the different locations. Garnering quotes describing Edinburgh from literary sources might as well complement the project and enrich its content. Here is a dowdy sketch drawn during today's session.
[And here is Mei after today's meeting ^-^]
Maybe it would be a good idea to think of ways of taking the project to the street, following a similar logic to "Re:positioning Fear", project of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer shared by Martin in class. We could cast the sms chunks on the facade of one of the buildings (or even organise our project around one single building and cover interior and exterior, or .... might imply unattainable $$$). Anyways, here's a small clip from the mexican.
The resource shared by Mark is interesting as well and may help us in our project, and the developer has other cool implementations that could give us some ideas (www.johngeraci.com /www.subfuzz.com).
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