Chapter 6: Designing for hyperlocal: The use of locative media to augment place narratives
Efstathia Kostopoulou; Ava Fatah gen Schieck The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Abstract
This chapter examines the use of digital annotations of physical urban space to tell the stories of places, with the focus on situated digital archival material. It does so by introducing and analyzing two different cases in East London that make use of local digital archival content. The first one is a mobile and trail-based experience in Whitechapel that uses Augmented Reality technology. The second one involves a fixed physical memorial in Bethnal Green, where the technology in use is a digital large projection. ...
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