Part II of the deck of slides from my workshop at UX Australia 2013 on place-making in cross-channel user experiences, previously a slightly different workshop at UX Lisbon 2012.

1. ANDREA RESMINI
BUILDING A SENSE OF PLACE – PRACTICAL CROSS-CHANNEL DESIGN
WORKSHOP, UX AUSTRALIA 2013
PART II

2. PART 2. PLACE-MAKING

3. PLACE-MAKING IS A
HUMAN-CENTERED WAY TO
HELP ACTORS MAKE SENSE
OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

4. SPACE & PLACE

5. SPACE IS THE BASE OF OUR
SENSE OF EMBODIMENT, AND
IT'S OBJECTIVE, IMPERSONAL
AND UNDIFFERENTIATED

7. PLACE INVOLVES MEMORIES,
EXPERIENCES AND
BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS: IT'S
PERSONAL, SUBJECTIVE AND
COMMUNITARIAN

13. TATOOINE

14. http://imagescart.blogspot.com.au

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#1. PLACE IS SET APART

17. http://imagescart.blogspot.com.au
#2. HAS A NAME

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#3. HAS BOUNDARIES

20. http://imagescart.blogspot.com.au
#4. HAS PERMANENCE

21. http://imagescart.blogspot.com.au
#5. AGGREGATES MEMORIES

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#6. WORKS SELECTIVELY

23. http://imagescart.blogspot.com.au
#7. HAS QUALITIES

25. WHAT AND WHERE IS FB?

30. CHECK #2: FB IN SPACE
DRAW FACEBOOK AS
IF IT WAS A BUILDING

31. TheNameof the Rose, J, Annaud

32. The Name of theRose, J, Annaud

33. TheNameof the Rose, J, Annaud

34. TheNameof the Rose, J, Annaud

35. The Name of the Rose, J, Annaud

36. The Name of theRose, J, Annaud
Scale model of the library

37. TheNameoftheRose, U. Eco

38. INTERFACES AND
INTERACTIONS DIFFER
WILDLY

39. COGNITIVE CONTINUITY
IS NOT
INTERFACE CONTINUITY

40. PRAGMATIC SPACE
PERCEPTUAL SPACE
EXISTENTIAL SPACE
COGNITIVE SPACE
ABSTRACT GEOMETRICAL SPACE
INTERFACES
ARCHITECTURES
IN-CHANNELCROSS-CHANNEL

41. d resmini where's that pic of
Peter dancing naked on the
table at the office?

42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/46037115@N04/4233027629/

43. @resmini where's that pic of
Peter dancing naked on the
table at the office?

44. http://gm25liveen.web-log.nl/george_michael_25_live_en/blog/index.html

45. COMMUNICATION ALWAYS
IMPLIES A NUMBER OF
SPATIAL ASSUMPTIONS AND
RELATIONSHIPS

46. NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW
THESE WORK MEANS
CRAFTING A BAD
CROSS-CHANNEL EXPERIENCE

47. PETER ->

48. WHY IS SPATIAL
KNOWLEDGE SUCH A
POWERFUL WAY TO
UNDERSTAND?

50. WE UNDERSTAND THE
ABSTRACT BY MEANS
OF THE CONCRETE

52. ONCE UPON A TIME

53. ONCE UPON A TIME

54. ONCE UPON A TIME

55. SPACE TIME
PLACE
RHYTHM
LANGUAGE MUSIC
MATHEMATICS

56. HOW CAN WE DESIGN
A SENSE OF PLACE WITHIN
A COMPLEX SYSTEM?

57. WE STUDY, ADAPT AND
EXTEND THE LANGUAGES
AND GRAMMARS OF
EXISTING MEDIA

58. THE TRIBUTE'S MONEY

59. THE TRIBUTE'S COMICS

61. 2 1 3
SEQUENCE & RHYTHM

62. 1
1
1
1

67. SCENE
AUDIENCE
CAMERA POV

71. ... appears as an entirely new
picture. The room suddenly
disappears and the hand ... flashes
up. Again when we have (seen
that), it suddenly disappears and
we are in the same room again

72. 1 2
SCENE SCENE
SOMEWHERE ELSE

76. SCENE
CAMERA POV
AUDIENCE
OUTSIDE SPACE

79. SCENE 1 SCENE 2
CAMERA POV CAMERAPOV
AUDIENCE AUDIENCE

81. SCENE
AUDIENCE
CAMERA POV

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87. FILMS PRESENT
A COMPLETE PLACE-MAKING
AND SENSE-MAKING
LANGUAGE

88. MONTAGE AND CUT

89. ASSEMBLY

90. CROSS-CUTTING

91. MISE-EN-SCENE

92. SPLIT-SCREEN

93. EXERCISE #2

94. REFLECTIONS

95. PLACE-MAKING CHEATSHEET
#1 PLACE IS SET APART, IDENTIFIED AND IDENTIFIABLE
#2 PLACE HAS A NAME
#3 PLACE HAS BOUNDARIES
#4 PLACE HAS TRANSIENT PERMANENCE
#5 PLACE AGGREGATES AND REUSES BEHAVIOR + MEMORIES
#6 PLACE WORKS SELECTIVELY
#7 PLACE HAS DISTINCTIVE SOCIAL + FUNCTIONAL QUALITIES

96. KEVIN LYNCH'S SPATIAL PRIMITIVES CHEATSHEET
#1 PATHS
#2 EDGES
#3 NODES
#4 DISTRICTS
#5 LANDMARKS
#6 WEENIES (THIS IS DISNEY'S, BUT USEFUL)

97. C. NORBERG SCHULZ RELATIONAL PRIMITIVES CHEATSHEET
#1 PROXIMITY
ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTER
#2 CONTINUITY
DIRECTIONALITY OR PATHS
#3 ENCLOSURES
PERCEPTION OF AREAS OR DOMAINS

98. book

99. BUILDING A SENSE OF PLACE: PRACTICAL CROSS-CHANNEL DESIGN
WORKSHOP, UX AUSTRALIA 2013
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