12. Human & Cultural Geography
• “Space” is not problematised.
• It’s not objective, but emerges from
interactions.
• Viewing an environment in this way offers
alternatives for technology design.
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14. Networked Interactions
• Munn (1996) describes the way space is
produced for indigenous Australians.
• A network of taboo relationships, ancestral
mythologies that are tied to a place.
• Basso (1996) describes how Western
Apache view space as a series of moral
stories. They entrench places in the cultural
landscape.
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16. Flows and Mobility
• The movement of people, goods and
information produces a certain kind of
space.
• Focuses less on the actors, and more on
mobility in its own right.
• Movement imposes a social geography
(Lynch, 1960).
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18. Temporal space
• Examines the way histories and memories
accumulate and influence our view of a
place.
• Spatialising memories to make them part of
history (Podoler, 2010).
• Meaning is often tied up in seasonal
rhythms - or “oscillations” (Askew, 2002).
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20. Embodied Space
• Multi-sensory, “being-in-the-world”.
• Cultural, emotional and aesthetic
perspectives.
• Forms a sense of “Place”.
• This has been most addressed by designers
& technologists so far.
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21. Parks Victoria?
Using these themes, how is Wilson’s Prom conceived,
understood and produced?
How can technology fit?
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22. Parks Victoria?
• Interviews with office staff and park
rangers (examine networks and flows).
• A mobile diary study in the park (examine
flows, temporality and embodiment).
• Interpretation interviews, egological
drawings.
• 30+ interviews. 6 diary participants.
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24. Kim Ranger
9/6/2011 2:20pm
Interpreting entries
“The photo I’ve just taken is of a giant landslip at
lillypilly gully. It’s obviously something the engineers will
need to work on, but following their work I think there
will be some work for the friends to do some revegetation
here - whether it’s by direct feeding or tube-stock
planting. They obviously wont do the entire land slip but
in strategic spots. I’ve just taken some video as well, I
think it’s a very interesting site for people to have a look
at.”
26. Early findings
• Locations act as a common vocabulary
around which stories are formed and told.
• Staff form “personal geographies”: an
individual understanding of space that is
constructed out of shared stories and own
observations.
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27. Future Steps
• Using a combination of Human & Cultural
Geography with study findings to come up
with technical designs.
• Focusing on story-telling, temporality, and
embodiment. In-situ!
• Hope this sits within existing networks to
form a richer understanding of a park.
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28. Conclusions
• Technology is too focused on solutions that
view everything as a problem.
• It should focus on being a responsible actor
within existing networks.
• Learning how a Park is conceived and
produced provides a unique perspective.
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29. Thanks!
chris.marmo@student.rmit.edu.au
Acknowledgements:
Prof. William Cartwright, Mr. Jeremy Yiuille. The support of the ARC and the broader Geoplaced Knowledge project team. Marmo
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Editor's Notes
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Parks Vic. Our case study site is at Wilson’s Promontory. \n\n
The problem they have is one common to most organisations. It has a spatial element though, due to the nature of the work the rangers perform. \n
about place? \nThis is becoming a very common problem;\n
How can they capture the knowledge..\n
that people have...\n
about place? \nThis is becoming a very common problem;\n
The pin is everywhere\nWhen you see this, it essentially means that the application or program you’re using is treating a coordinate from GPS as your “context”.\n\n
The treat “space” as dumb - having no meaning itself, or not having the right kind of meaning. It pays little attention to the ways we interact with the world, and how we form an understanding of it. \n
Space is often treated as a problem. It either aims to bridge gaps between people and data as they move around, bring information in the tell us about where we are, or reveal stuff we are not able to see. The problems are: meaningless, not meaningful enough, or not in the right way. \n
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people, data, technologies and places are all equal parts in a network. Space emerges from the interactions between them. \n
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focuses on the movement of things\n
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for tourists to wilson’s prom, the rhythm of going camping in the prom every year forms rituals that produce meaning for those tourists. \n
our senses, emotions, and “in body” experience of a place. \n
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focused on providing memories, personal insights, as well as mundane details of work life, including recording conversations, frustrations with access, etc. This was focused on flood recovery. \n
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these highlighted more of a day-to-day understanding of the park. Personal perspectives. \n
