CatVidPlace project: Collaboration on the senses of place
Steve Mills is over from Cardiff to work with me on a collaborative project exploring ideas to do with senses of place at Catalhoyuk and how we can use different media to disseminate these ideas. At present we are experimenting with sound and video walks at the site.
Our aim is to develop other modes of engaging with place, memory, sensation, and bodily experience through the use of video cameras and iPods.
Having done a series of video/sound walks at Catalhoyuk we are now working on integrating these in an interface that enables us to explore senses of place through different scenarios. One scenario is based on archaeological information - an approach similar to information panels encountered on site. Another scenario considers the role of the senses when touring the site and how they are integral to the experience of engagement; how they may be complementary in certain instances and perhaps contradictory in others. A third sceanrio considers memory; how previous engagement (as a visitor or as an archaeologist) with the site may be influential in subsequent encounters. Another scenario may embrace performance.
We are now brain-storming an interface metaphor that enables us to integrate different media (e.g. video, sound recordings, photograhy, text) to stitch these scenarios together.