Lui's presentation for Connected Limerick, 24/09/2010, Tweak & IxDA Limerick

1. Welcome to “Connected Limerick ” 24/09/10

2. “ Connected Limerick ” 24/09/10 The Experience of Place and The Digital Layer Luigina Ciolfi

3. We are going to talk about place Place as a physical entity Place as a carrier of meaning, a setting for experience

4. We are going to talk about Limerick Limerick as a physical entity Limerick as what it means to us, the setting for our experience

5. Our experience of Limerick is different from what it was only a few years ago How is the Digital Layer making things different?

6. First, let’s think about place

7. Why place? We are always en-placed How do people interact with and experience technology that is connected to the environment they inhabit? How do we bring all these aspects of experience together, the physical and the digital ?

8. “ the scene of an experience of relations with the world” (Auge’, 1995)

22. Let’s start with an exercise Think of you own experience of Limerick as a place with a digital cloud Draw a map of an experience of Limerick that connects the physical and the digital city Think of how it has affected you personally, culturally, socially and physically Share with everyone