Tales of Things is all about memories, the stories we attach to objects as we move through life. As such we are very pleased to announce our latest partnership with Oxfam for their Curiosity Shop in Selfridges, London. The Curiosity Shop is open until 10th of April on the lower…
Back in May 2010, The Edinburgh College of Art ran a workshop to explore the publics apprehension fortagging technologies. It was very successful and provided insights in to the fears and concerns around RFID and the tagging of objects and people. The day was organised in such a way as…
You may of noticed that we recently launched our project ‘TalesofThings‘, a site that tags any media to any object using QRcodes or rfid tags. We have just pushed an update that introduces ‘groups’ so all objects of interest can be viewed in one place. As all things urban are…
Via the project talesofthings.com we have been capturing people’s memories of objects and playing them back via small readable and writeable QR codes and RFID tags. As part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010, Tales of the City extends the concept into the urban realm with the architecture of…
Every object in existence can be tagged with any media, linked to tell a story, to recount its memories in a read/write environment and tweet when its interacted with. Its a concept that takes a bit of time to take in, for example a wall in Camden Town, London, tweeted…
Have you ever wanted to know the story behind the things you buy? Who owned the object from that charity shop and what about its history, the memories associated with it and why is it now for sale? In association with Oxfam and part of the Manchester Future Everything Festival…
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