The document describes several locative media projects developed by Waag Society in Amsterdam between 2002-2007. It summarizes each project including what it was, why it was developed, who it involved, when and where it took place, results and more information. Projects included Amsterdam RealTime, an interactive GPS art installation; Frequency 1550, a mobile history game for students; N8 Game, a media-rich geotracing contest; and ParQ, a social media application for public parks.

1. Locative Media
programme
Ronald Lenz (ronald@waag.org)
Aske Hopman (aske@waag.org)
www.waag.org/locativemedia

2. Amsterdam RealTime

3. Amsterdam RealTime
• What? An interactive art installation
rendering realtime GPS data into a live map
of Amsterdam
• Why? To enable creative use of GPS
technology, to visualize participants' mental
maps, to raise awareness of tracing issues

4. Amsterdam RealTime
• Who? Collaboration with Esther Polak, with
volunteers from all ranges of Amsterdam
society, for visitors of a historical maps
exhibition
• When/Where? October-December 2002

5. Amsterdam RealTime
• Results! 80 individual Amsterdam maps
combining into a two month space-time
representation of the city / for WS: big
international exposure, interest in doing
more project using positioning technology
• More? www.waag.org/amsterdamrealtime

6. Amsterdam RealTime

7. Amsterdam RealTime

8. Frequency 1550

9. Frequency 1550
• What? An educational mobile location-based
game pilot, blending medieval history out on
the Amsterdam streets with assignments in
online information retrieval and media
creation.
• Why? To have students experience history
on-site through a medium that may engage
them more than classroom education:
mobile phone based gaming.

10. Frequency 1550
• Who? For 12-14 year old secondary school
pupils of Montessori Comprehensive School
Amsterdam
• When/Where? February 2005 / The
medieval centre of Amsterdam and inside
the Waag building.

11. Frequency 1550
• Results! successful pilot with enthused
students, a lot of attention generated,
critical view on balance between
technology/narrative/education/gaming fun,
follow-up into more robust version of
mobile game
• More? www.waag.org/frequency1550

14. N8 game

15. N8 game
• What? A team contest in creating media-
enriched geotraces of nightly Amsterdam
• Why? Providing a locative media creation
tool to the public in a playful setting

16. N8 game
• Who? With volunteers visiting the
Amsterdam museum-night, for online
viewers and a live audience in the Waag
building
• When/Where? Amsterdam’sAmsterdam
night november 2005 / The
annual museum
inner city around the participating museums.

17. N8 game
• Results! the teams re-playable media-
routes / for WS: shift toward web-based
(live) representation of geo-media
• More? www.n8spel.nl

19. Mobile Learning Game Kit

20. Mobile Learning Game Kit
• What? A software platform to create, play
and share educational location-based games
• Why? To enable the creation of new forms
of education

21. Mobile Learning Game Kit
• Who? Together with the HvA / MediaLab &
UvA
• When/Where? Now! Amsterdam pilots on
UvA’s Media Archeology and Oral History
in summer 2007

23. ParQ

24. ParQ
• What? A mobile media sharing application
that exposes and reinforces the social
network of the communities that share a
public park
• Why? Study on how social interaction can
be influenced by locative aspects of mobile
messaging

25. ParQ
• Who? Currently in discussion
• When/Where? Hopefully in a park in
Amsterdam in summer 2007
• More? www.waag.org/parq