[aha] Ubiquitous Pompei: the future of the city, created by high school students

[Derrick de Kerckhove]

Buon anno 2012 pupini! DdeK
On 2011-12-11, at 9:50 AM, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:

> ed ecco a voi un altro meraviglioso cross-post :)
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> xDxD
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> Dear friends and colleagues,
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> we are very happy to inform you about this event:
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> http://www.artisopensource.net/2011/12/11/ubiquitous-pompei-the-future-of-the-city-created-by-high-school-students/
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> The (digital) future of the city of Pompei, created by high school students.
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> This event is the result of a project during which high school students were introduced to a set of technologies and methodologies through which they could create ubiquitous content using Augmented Reality and QRCodes.
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> http://artisopensource.net/pompeiAR
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> Students were invited to imagine the digital future of their city, designing end-to-end concepts in which the whole city became a space for publication.
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> 4 wonderful projects emerged:
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> - a tool for participatory administration of the city, in which citizens use augmented reality to publish their ideas onto the city, classifying them as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" and, thus, expressing their visions on how to change their city
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> - a peculiar tourist guide, in which the city is narrated directly by citizens of all ages, who produced videos in which they tell the stories of this beautiful land in a way in which you will never find in classical tourist guides, and published directly onto city spaces using augmented reality, allowing you to experience the story and life of the city in a novel, emotional way
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> - an augmented reality map to allow people to discover the places and events of christianity in Pompei: the city is well known for its pagan roman history. But how many people know about its engaging history in christianity?
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> - an incredible ubiquitous book dedicated to the ancient "social networks" found in Pompei's ruins: romans engaged in ubiquitous chatter, too! Ancient versions of Twitter and Facebook can still be found on the walls all around the ruins of roman Pompei, where people inscribed graffiti messages about their daily life and full of useful information; An augmented reality application allows you to read these graffiti by framing them in your smartphone and, thus, translating them from latin into your own language; discover the lives of ancient Pompeians and engage an experiment in atemporality, as using the application you are able to comment the ancient graffiti and open up a dialogue across all time
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> we are particularly happy to being able to present this project to you all: in the current state of crisis hitting Italy, being able to actually give a good news such as this one is like a breath of fresh air and a energetic drive for our hopes and visions.
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> The city administration has been incredibly collaborative, the schools, teachers and students embraced this possibility with enthusiasm and desire to learn and express their ideas, and MediaDuemila Journal (the organizers of the "McLuhan meets Pompei" series of events for the celebrations of McLuhan's Centennial) have been wonderful enablers of the whole process.
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> So, if you are around Pompei in these days consider dropping by: the augmented city is full of icons, representing the will of young students to reinvent their reality.
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> all the best,
> xDxD
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