Being a map freak, I love locative work

Here is the project description from “Team LoJo” who are doing a very interesting GPS experiment that will link actual space, in this instance, parts of Chicago’s Washington Park, one of the proposed venue locations if Chicago gets the 2016 Summer Olympics (which I pray each day we do *not* get, but that is another story, an editorial, in fact,) with virtual space they create.

I’ll be helping them test how their prototype works on Saturday, so stay tuned for updates.

clipped from lojoconnect.com

Locative Storytelling in Chicago: The 2016 Olympics

By Satta Sarmah

For the past week or so, Team LoJo has been talking about locative storytelling—innovative journalism that relies on the web and mobile technology.

We’ve been doing research and shoe leather reporting and, on Thursday, we spent the entire day getting audio and video and interviewing sources for a project that we hope will embody locative storytelling at its best: Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics.

Our project will focus on the economic, environmental and social impacts of hosting the Olympics in Chicago. In April 2007, Chicago was selected as the U.S. applicant for the 2016 summer Olympics.

The goals of our project include giving the audience well-balanced storytelling across different platforms and allowing people to experience this story in the actual physical locations that will be affected. We’re in the preliminary stages, but keep checking back with us to see the progress we’ve made.

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