DiMo::Digital+Mobilities Project INVESTIGATING THE FREEDOM TRAIL THROUGH CODES About Team Maps Pix UX 15 Tags Links
 
 
I have assigned students to ‘reload’ the Freedom Trail, Boston’s chief touristic attraction. The site of the Freedom Trail Foundation says that: The Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile red-brick walking trail that leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, every one an authentic American treasure. The aim was to give students the opportunity to think the relationship between technology and the urban environment, and tangibly engage it. Students will produce an ethNOMOgraphy (an ethnography on the move, adapted to the world of mobility) of the Freedom Trail by taking pictures, interviewing users, and research the history of the Freedom Trail so to find important moments in time and space. They will examine the Freedom Trail, map it, find a real estate for the 2D code, examine reactions, propose a design involving POP(s), People, Objects and Places altogether