Re-making space with cellphones July 12, 2007
Posted by François in appropriation, baroque, boost, space.trackback
Brett Stalbaum, who had brought Boost’s cheap GPS-enabled internet-connected phones to my attention, has been using them in two of his classes at UC San Diego this past quarter. The result is “antinormalizer”, a project in which his students used the phones to re-make public spaces around campus. As Brett explains in the video, cell phones are increasingly scripting our behavior in public spaces, so why not use them to “change the script of already programmed spaces”? The result is a fascinating baroque layering of unexpected behaviors onto existing space.
abaporu project on technology appropriation 
[…] the last line of thought, it’s been said that cell phones are scripting our behavior. As François Bar let us know, Brett Stalbaum and Derek Lomas, both from UC San Diego, developed a creative approach of the […]
A further example of calls scripting behaviour:
Urban Myth Spreads Panic
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=334987&apc_state=henparr#
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Subject: mobile phone brain virus
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[…] have been thinking of buying a mobile 🙂 . I want to learn how to change the script of already programmed spaces. What do you […]
[…] After following Bee’s blog post about u-learning and watching to Scoble video, I skipped over to YouTube and picked up the designing learning spaces (or more accurately, the ‘antinormalizer’) video Bee refers to, about re-scripting spaces in which we learn (blog post is here). […]