CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE
diary making: collecting and organizing personal experiences

browsing stimuli from distance, reviving the memories.

being stimulated in place; stumbling upon new experiences

social activities: creating experiences to engage and stimulate others to relate to the space somehow.
ACTIVITIES
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"Sometimes it is far too easy to live our lives in "default settings", doing what we know, 
what we feel comfortable with. It is much
more difficult to stop, look up, and ask ourselves: 
Is there another way? Is there an alternative?"
Brendan Dawes,Analog In, Digital Out.
PROJECT BRIEF
The project aims at creating a system that help citizens to start or to maintain a romantic relationship with the city they live in.
INTRODUCTION
>> main purposes for using a map:
travelling, finding, searching, reaching, knowing location, orienting, navigation.
>> interesting outliers: understanding, informing, 
just curiosity, pleasure, exploring, planning.
>> main methods of documenting your life:
photos, writing, sketch, video, mobile.
>> interesting outliers: collecting scraps, memory, keeping souveniers, use the body itself
>> main reasons to document an experience: 
revisit, relive, remember, return, share, nostalgia, 
keep the first time experiences.
>> interesting outliers: people in their daily lives, a view point, funny accidents, a nice place to think about the future.
COLLECTING STORIES
INQUIRES
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
there is enough data about individual in the internet already, building extensive profiles is a cumbersome activity. The system should be able to collect data from your virtual identities.

>it should look and feel tailored to the user 

> it should allow social contact between members

> it should be quick to setup, not demaning input of more information

> it should have strong control over permissions settings

> it should create a poetic experience in itself, that people feel like repeating

>  it should invite the user 
to the experiences without becoming annoying.

> should bring knowledge 
in a playful and entertaining way
RESEARCH FINDINGS
most applications using locative media focus on OBJECTIVE data, actionable knowledge. Is there space for an alternative? To Contemplationable Knowledge?
people enter their data an share their stories naturally if there's a tool available, even if there's no clear instant benefit. [vid Daytum].
There are already enough inputs of information from social networks and apps available online. My application should read from all these inputs.
I want to avoid the screen because the representation of the place is not the place itself and the relation would still be too much mediated. Browsing the actual space enhances the experience and makes the user's experience more real.
This project does not aim at increasing productivity or efficiency, but at revealing poetry and stimulating people.  It gives them chances to have the feeling of seeing things that matter for them for the first time again, through the eyes of others.
CONCEPTS
it's a project for now;
to anyone with curiosity and a minute to spare
and it happens in the urban space.
Australian Aborigine in Walkabout