I concocted a new edition of Shifting Metropolis in Brussels with Shelbatra Jashari.
Shifting Metropolis aims to make a descriptive map, a multimedia interpretation of a city by its inhabitants.
We moved away from the aesthetically pleasing but finally hermetic 3d world we made before and experimented with various technologies.
With Balthzar de Tonnac we got into QR tags and figured out how we could link this to the okno web environment.
We encoded urls in the tags, made stickers out of them and started posting them around the city. We put them in precise places, where if you read the tag (with a fancy cell phone) you link to the attached media.
This approach lets us add media in a fairly low-tech way to the city and allows for some nice possibilities, e.g. non-linear story telling by putting tags on fixed and mobile objects such as public busses etc.
Of course the high tech phone aspect was still a big put off, as few people have those here in Belgium, but that seems to change rapidly.
To group it all together, we put the tags on geograpically the same spot on a huge satellite photo in okno, so the public could also scan there and see the media projected.
You can get the urls and most of the content here: shiftbrussels.
The project was nice, but is for now refridgerated untill we find better ways still.
This project was presented at Coop-Bratislava