Module 2: Place and Space

This project is a sonic derive that explores urban spaces by following the personal sonic spaces of others via iPods and other mobile music devices.

Assignment

Investigate the implications of digitally augmented hybrid environments though developing your own alteration or intervention in an existing space.

Design Question

How can we use the augmented space we create via our iPods to interact with our environment in a new way?

Overview

The excessive stimuli of urban spaces leaves little physical and mental space for the individuals that populate it. We have to find creative ways to carve personal space in public, but we can become easily disconnected with the people around us by the environments we create for ourselves

Concept

Based on the ideas of the Situationist derive, uListen allows seasoned urbanites a new way to meander through the city, away from their static routines and city noise in a playful way.Through this application, people can explore urban space by following the personal sonic spaces of others via iPods and other mobile music devices. Engaging in a game of unidirectional sound tag, players move through the city based on someone else’s path and routine.

In Action

Documentation

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