Day workshop at Highwire, Lancaster University, 4th Feb 2016
exploring issues for designing for those at the physical, social or economic margins of society.
http://alandix.com/academic/talks/margins-and-migrants-2016/
3. today I am not talking about …
• intelligent internet interfaces
• visualisation and sampling
• small device – large display interactions
• fun and games, virtual crackers,
artistic performance, slow time
• physicality and product design
• creativity and Bad Ideas
• modelling dream, regret,
the emergence of self
4. … or even lots of lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
8. Tiree Tech Wave
for the participants
open agenda in an open environment
design challenges at the margins
for the community
additional visitors in low season
IT essential for future of the islands
11. Welsh Coast Path
opened May 2012
linking existing paths
a single way marked route
with Offa’s Dyke encircles Wales
three full traversals in 2012 (one running)
12. vision
personal
encircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,
practical
IT for the walker & IT for local communities
philosophical
reflections on walking and space, locality and identity
research
personal agenda and living lab
14. walking for war
Napoleon in Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion
_of_Russia
The Long
March
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March
Roman Legions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion
15. walking as political activism
Salt March (India) Jarrow March (UK)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
2257003/Last-Jarrow-Marchers-walked-
300-miles-London-poverty-protest-dies-
aged-96.html
17. walking in the humanities
poetry & Romanticism
(19th century)
psychogeography
all method?
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/british-
watercolours-developing-landscape-subjects/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Psychogeography
18. walking because you have to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#/me
dia/File:Famine_memorial_dublin.jpg
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/06/10/eu-to-
propose-migrant-plan-as-1000-migrants-arrive-in-greece-in-
one-day/
21. an interstitial community
caravan site (nearly) in centre of town
but behind, in the gaps
semi-permanent residents
locality? parallel communities in same place
22. community and cohesion
abandonment and dissolution:
Rhyl – dustbin of Liverpool
Dee estuary – even the pubs closed
internal strength
Penmaenmawr – in the face of adversity
community enterprise: shops, pubs, arts
23. language and culture
intimately linked
even for the non-Welsh speaker!
changed in my lifetime
but under threat again
technological implications
not just translations ... media choice etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Ce
lyn
24. maps
reclaiming the local map within technological space
mapping never easier ... so long as it is ‘standard’
“Post-Renaissance maps cover the surface of the
world with an homogeneous Cartesian grip”
Barbara Bender
local maps – local concerns
27. at the margins
social marginality:
poor, old, rural
information marginality:
poor connectivity, old devices
IT deepens the divide
... but can IT help in the margins?
28. IT in the margins
lessons from each other
Harris Tweed
hole in the wall
simple SMS
an old dream ...
the electronic village shop
what now?
www.hole-in-the-wall.com
31. always connected?
mobile signal
absent or weak
broadband ...
not so broad
masts point to sea
not land ...
yachts = money
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
33. infrastructure or privilege?
19th century – Penny Post
the amazing invention
revolutionised communication
Today – Internet
50% of Welsh schools say
poor connectivity hampers education
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pennypos.html