Families tend to walk the same 3 routes close to home 90% of the time. The document proposes creating personalized maps of families' regular walks that are populated over time with photos, videos, and sounds recorded during walks. These interactive maps could act as journals and memory banks to track changes observed along the routes like flood lines, first signs of spring flowers, and bird nests spotted. Users would print the maps, take notes during walks, and later email observations back to continuously update the maps.
2. Families tend to do the same walks, 90%
of the time it is one of 3 routes they take
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4. “We should all become famous for 5 miles, that
is all you ever need, draw a 5 mile radius
around your home, start from your front door
and work outwards. A life long apprenticeship
to a place and knowing everything within it.”
Gary Synder
5. Could we create the maps of
the walk the family goes on?
Could we map your walk?
6. Could we make that map and populate it with
the photos, videos and sounds you record?
Could it be the journal and memory bank of
your family over time?
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10. You could print out the map
Take noticings as you go
And then email them when
you get back home
Over time, you could be sent emails to nudge
to you take certain noticings over time
“Flood line”
“First Daffodils”
“Bird nests”
