Urban Tapestries, Screen Shot 2, 2003-2004 Virtual Museum of Canada
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The image here is of a screen shot of the Urban Tapestries website, including a list of authors and a map viewer on the right.

Urban Tapestries, Screen Shot 2, 2003-2004

Images in the Series: Urban Tapestries, presented in London, England, is a software platform that provided public authoring and knowledge sharing through mobile technology and geographic information systems as an alternative to the institutional map. The project allowed users to annotate the official maps and the public spaces around them as they explored it. The image represented here is a screen shot of a PDA with an urban map overlayed with abstract vectors on the screen.The image here is of a screen shot of the Urban Tapestries website, including a list of authors and a map viewer on the right.This image is of an urban map overlayed with points connected by lines from the Urban Tapestries website.

Utilizing a wireless network, users can log into the system and experience or contribute location based-stories, images and text through their mobile devices (PDAs, Mobile Telephones, etc.). In this way, they are creating an alternate city map based on personal, first-hand participation. Urban Tapestries is formally analogous to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows edits and contributions from any users and is neither curated nor edited.

Urban Tapestries was created by Proboscis in 2002 as a research project to explore the convergence of locative media and its social implications. Led by Giles Lane with Alice Angus, Paul Bichard, and Nick West, the current team includes Michael Golembewski, Paul Makepeace, George Papamarkos, Sarah Thelwall, and Zoe Sujon. They are currently based in the UK.


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