SUMMER 2013
Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Every surface inside the top floor of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is covered in QR codes, which visitors decode using tablet computers to explore ideas for a new Russian city dedicated to science.
Tour Tampa Bay Architecture
The highlight of Tour Tampa Bay Architecture is a self-guided walking tour of significant architecture in Downtown Tampa. An interesting array of 22 historic, modern, sustainable, award-winning and critically acclaimed buildings and locations are featured. Information is, in most cases, only accessible once your reach the building, by scanning a QR Code that has been placed on or near it. This way you are able to truly appreciate and experience it. The location of the QR Code is shown in the photo marking the building location on the downtown map.
Map/Territory - Urban environment as a wayfinding canvas
Beyond mobile devices, wayfinding provides an excellent stepping stone into the world of ubiquitous computing. Imagining a world of ambient informatics, we see thousands of potential output devices. Public LCD displays, signage, buildings, even the street beneath our feet can be our canvas.
Nearest Tube iPhone app from Acrossair
Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.
When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons.
USER STORIES AND MEMORIES
Italo Perez & Gladisbel Miranda
Sharing user's stories and memories can be the base for a wayfinding system for a city or a place. There are technologies that serve as the media to archieve these data that may be then collected and shared by visitors to specific places.
The combination of architecture and innovative technologies -QR codes, LCD displays and digital applications- offer a most succesful and interesting way to move throgh a city, experiencing places, learning from other's stories and memories to create your own experience.