Speaker

Anteater Instruction and Research Bldg., room 3030 UCI videoconference facility

Powell Library room 285 UCLA videoconference facility

Galbraith Hall (CLICS) room 260 UCSD videoconference facility

[edit] Title

Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System

[edit] Abstract

I'll mainly be speaking from a live website, which students can access: http://www.hypercities.com

Built out of and on top of real cities, HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) is a collaborative learning platform that augments the space and time of the physical world with the information web and renders the experience of the World Wide Web geographic and temporal. A HyperCity is a real city overlaid with its geo-temporal information, ranging from its architectural and urban history to family genealogies and the stories of the people and diverse communities who live and lived there. Our first HyperCities are Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Lima, Ollantaytambo, Rome, and Tel Aviv, with many more in the works. As a platform that reaches deeply into archival collections and aggregates digital content, HyperCities not only transforms how information is produced, stored, retrieved, shared, repurposed, and experienced but also transforms how human beings interact with information and one another in space and time.

Awarded one of the first "digital media and learning" prizes by the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC in 2008 (http://hub.dmlcompetition.net), HyperCities is an unprecedented collaboration between universities, community partners, and cultural institutions to develop innovative teaching tools, technologies, and partnerships in the burgeoning field of digital cultural mapping. HyperCities represents the culmination of over ten years of work in establishing best-practices, technological prototypes, and award-winning geo-historical content for these cities. Born out of Web 2.0 technologies (particularly, the Google Maps API and social networking) , HyperCities represents a new educational environment that links generations and knowledge communities, mobilizing an array of technologies (from GPS-enabled cell phones to GIS mapping tools and geo-temporal databases) to pioneer a truly participatory, open-ended learning ecology in which digital information is connected with the physical world. HyperCities is a collaborative learning platform in which users "browse" cities by drilling down through time, make new discoveries as they move through space, and animate the ever-growing repositories of cultural memory.

... continued on main site at Todd Presner