Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
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…
Today sees the launch of our latest collaboration via the Tales of Things project – this time with a Norwegian transport company, Kolumbus. Tales of Things has been utilising Kolumbus’ already existing QR codes to allow passengers to leave stories for one another. When a passenger visits one of Kolumbus’…
We are pleased to say that in at number 24 of Wired Magazines ‘Big Ideas for 2011’ is Chatitecture, part of the Tales of Things project. Over the past 8 months a group of us have been developing technology to allow buildings to ‘talk’, to communicate their history, their architecture…
We are proud to of just been featured on Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Below we give full details of TalesofThings, how you can start ‘life logging’ your stuff and how you can tag architecture…
The London Festival of Architecture is underway and via the project Tales of the City we have been capturing people’s memories of Shoreditch and playing them back them back via small readable and writeable QR codes and RFID tags. Tales of the City extends the TalesofThings project into the urban…
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…
Autopsies Research Group Study DayFriday, 4 June 2010, UCL (University College London) Roberts G08 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre [campus map] Sponsored by The Film Studies Space: The Centre for the Cultural History of the Moving Image This event is free and open to all. To register for the study…
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…
As part of TalesofThings we are tagging the city, putting memories and history onto the streets and allow people to leave their own thoughts and experiences via the free TalesofThings qrcode and iPhone app. One of our favorite parts of London was around Camden Town and the Bansky Maid stencil…
Streaming Urban Data – YouTube Live
Particles – 3dsMax and Lumion/Unity
The Making of the CASA Oculus Rift Urban Roller Coaster
Linking a 1940’s Radio to the Internet of Things
Introducing the MSc and MRes Smart Cities at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
IFTTT, Netatmo & Philips Hue: Linking Data to Lighting
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