Place and significance, from historic landmarks to digital maps

Prerequisites:
  • Knowledge of rich-content websites
Objectives:
  • To introduce students to 'installations' as a mode of perception of place
Description:
  • A study of websites on significant places and their meaning

Questions
SIGNIFICANT PLACES
Places with historic memories raise the question of 'association of ideas' and its expression through various media

  • Stuart landmarks

Places which evoke a historic heritage are those linked to historic events - let us take landmarks of the Stuart period as an example: Edgehill, Chalgrove, Sedgemoor, Taunton - historic places

  • From emblem to expression

The modes of imaginative suggestion associated with places have themselves been discussed by students of aesthetics.



THE SENSE OF PLACE ON THE WEB
How does hyperspace mediate or alter the sense of place?

 

 
  • Memory maps as installations

The idea of the imaginative power of place can be developed in electronic media, as installations.

  • The symbolism of the digital sense of place

The idea of digital mapping has also been subject to interpretations

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