Thingema and The Memory Mix
In October Jane and I worked with the National Museum of Scotland at their central Edinburgh site to explore a series of extensions to the Tales of Things project. As well as a series of story capture workshops that gathered material in support of the The Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival we also […]
Thinking back on time
Like John Wood (Deaf School and Goldsmiths) said “It’s all about time!”. Perhaps more recently networks have afforded a better framework with which to understand relational temporalities, but nevertheless a lot of my research remains about time. And since a number of projects have popped up recently in which time is a central concern I’ve […]
A rolling stone gathers no moss and other consumer conspiracies.
Taken from: Speed, C. (2011) A rolling stone gathers no moss and other consumer conspiracies. In Future Everything. Edited by Hemment, D. Published by Future Everything. In April 2010, a group of trans-disciplinary academics launched the web project www.talesofthings. The site offered a simple but novel approach to recording social histories and a playful critique […]
QR Video Projects
Updating on some projects that a few of us completed last year during the Edinburgh Film Festival and part of the New Media Scotland Atmosphere series. Atmosphere is one of the research programmes at Inspace, the digital laboratory of New Media Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. First premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh […]
Architecture and Field/Work
Toward the end of last year Suzanne Ewing, Jérémie Michael McGowan, Victoria Clare Bernie and myself edited together selected papers from an AHRA Conference held in Edinburgh a year before: http://www.fieldworkconference.net/ The conference and subsequent book dealt with the role that Fieldwork has played in the work of architects and landscape architects and the many […]
Thinking on GPS
This blog post is taken from the intro to the book of the same name, available here in PDF form, or from here at Blurb. GPS technology retains some of the magic that all astronomical instruments possess – a dimension of reconciling the scale of the spaces that are outside of earths atmosphere with a […]
Text Block @ Hawkes Bay Museum and Gallery
Earlier this year the Hawkes Bay Museum and Gallery, in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand published a small commissioned artwork by Duncan and me. The artwork operates as a representation of the donations that have been received by members of the public toward the cost of extending the existing museum gallery. The resulting artwork is an […]
Pigeon post: Community Web2.0 and creative control through hacking
This post is an adaptation of a small UK Research Council grant application that was successful. We are now advertising for a Research Associate: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABY930/research-associate-04-fte/ I’ve ‘laced’ the article with images of pigeons. On a recent visit to the East end of Glasgow, old men could be seen hanging around on corners in the middle […]
Exhuming Spectral Cities
A short essay reflecting on our Walking Through Time iPhone App and the potential for locative media to access social hauntings. Spectral Cities Ten years ago, at the Habitus 2000: A Sense of Place conference in Perth, Australia, the cultural geographer Steve Pile articulated the potential for cultural events within cities to bring back the […]
Grave to Cradle: An Internet of Old Things
This short article reflects upon the temporal characteristics of the emerging phenomenon known as the Internet of Things. As objects become individually tagged with unique identities through the addition of small electronic chips or bar codes, their history is recorded and made available to others across a network. The advent of this ever-growing catalogue of […]
The Madness of Old Town
’Your shoe,’ I repeated. ‘Perhaps you’d put it on.’ He continued to look downwards, though not at the shoe, with an intense but misplaced concentration. Finally his gaze settled on his foot: ‘That is my shoe, yes?’ Did I mis-hear? Did he mis-see? ‘My eyes,’ he explained, and put a hand on his foot. ‘This is my […]
Erasure: Disposal of Place
A few of us proposed what we thought was an interesting TOTeM related panel for Mapping, Memory and the City conference. Unfortunately it didn’t get in, although a paper on Walking Through Time did. However I think the idea is still interesting and that’s why I have a blog – to record it! The panel […]