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The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric

The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric

Colleen Morgan
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781605661520|ISBN10: 160566152X|EISBN13: 9781605661537
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch010
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Morgan, Colleen. "The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric." Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City, edited by Marcus Foth, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 144-157. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch010

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Morgan, C. (2009). The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric. In M. Foth (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City (pp. 144-157). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch010

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Morgan, Colleen. "The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric." In Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City, edited by Marcus Foth, 144-157. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch010

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Abstract

This chapter explores how we may design located information and communication technologies (ICTs) to foster community sentiment. It focuses explicitly on possibilities for ICTs to create new modalities of place through exploring key factors such as shared experiences, shared knowledge and shared authorship. To contextualise this discussion in a real world setting, this chapter presents FIGMENTUM, a situated generative art application that was developed for and installed in a new urban development. FIGMENTUM is a non-service based application that aims to trigger emotional and representational place-based communities. Out of this practice-led research comes a theory and a process for designing creative place-based ICTs to animate our urban communities.

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