Geoplaced Knowledge
Posts by: Chris
As an activity today I went through this blog and conducted a card sort on the posts. What emerged from it was a rough outline of my overall thesis (and the realisation that I’ve written many more words than I had originally thought). There is a lot of manipulation to get these words into a [...]
I’m increasingly relying on my notebook to test out ideas and document progress. In the last 3 months, there’s been about 100 pages of content similar to this: trying different ways of analyzing data, and prototyping chapters. It feels much less formal than this blog, but today I was suddenly struck with the realization that [...]
To curb off a bit of the ol’ thesis anxiety, I thought I’d make a list of things-I-did this year. In no particular order, here are the things I liked (and possibly didn’t) this year.
Writing/Talking
My university (and supervisor) are great at encouraging and pushing their graduate students to write and publish [...]
Parks Victoria have produced a video on Aboriginal Cultural knowledge, a great introduction to the notion that people, practices and a landscape are tightly related.
People say that after they have been in an area for a while, they start to become a reflection of that environment. Sometimes, the environment starts to reflect the [...]
Whilst the park is open to visitors, issues of access and accessibility are still persistent. These images above are taken mainly in “tourist” areas, with the signage communicating to the public. However, the issues are present for everyone: people can’t get to where they were able to [...]
Eight months after the flood at Wilson’s Promontory, Tidal River has been (kind of) re-opened to the public. People are able to stay in the park itself (fortunately, this includes researchers), but many of the surrounding trails are still in need of repair.
Status update aside: I spent two days in the park [...]
My case study site is Wilson’s Promontory, a national park situated in the rural south east of Victoria, Australia. Whilst my thesis will broadly discuss the roll of environmental understanding (from a cultural geography perspective) in the design of technology for use in these types of settings, the “practical problem” I’m faced with is [...]
Following on from the last post on an analysis of the movement of rangers, I’d like to discuss another interesting (if not obvious) finding from the diary study. That is: that accessibility dictates what is possible to know.
Access and infrastructure are common topics in ubiquitous computing literature – access to [...]
Over the last few months I’ve conducted a mobile diary study with rangers at the study site, Wilson’s Promontory National Park. Six participants were asked to record a number of entries as they went about their daily activities: a) Things they wanted to show other people, b) interesting observations for themselves, and c) recollections of [...]
Geoplaced Knowledge
This is a research notebook exploring the gaps between cultural geography, natural environments and ubiquitous computing.
It documents my progress undertaking a cross-disciplinary PhD, in Geospatial Science and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne.
I'm working with Parks Victoria, a government body charged with managing natural environments in the state of Victoria, Australia. My work is being conducted under the Design Research Institute's Affective Atlas project, whose goal is to better facilitating the creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge about national parks.
Themes
- Augmented Reality (2)
- Brain Dump (14)
- Conducting a PhD (7)
- Context (6)
- essay-a-fortnight (2)
- Government (1)
- How to: Get a PhD (5)
- inspiration (2)
- Knowledge (15)
- Location (18)
- Methods (5)
- Mobile (1)
- Parks Vic (16)
- Place/Space (5)
- Research Questions (10)
- Technology (3)
- travel (1)
- ubicomp (5)
- Uncategorized (3)
- Visualisation (8)
