USED
Urban Spaces and Experience Design
Urban Spaces and Experience Design (USED) is an arts and research project focusing on participatory media and experience design in the urban and wireless context. The aims of the project are to create a research and production practice informed by an understanding of the experiential and social qualities of public spaces as they are reconfigured by mobile and pervasive technologies, and to develop methods for participatory media and experience design.
USED was inititated by m-cult in 2004 and is co-organized with HIIT Helsinki Institute for Information technology. The project is funded by the Finnish Academy and the Arts Council of Finland / Arts and research interaction programme in 2005-07. USED collaborates with international networks of location-based, pervasive and mobile arts, and hosts interdisciplinary seminars for researchers and practitioners who work in the field.
USED team
Susanna Koskinen - researcher, documentarist and developerTapio Mäkelä - researcher, media artist
Andrew Paterson - researcher, media artist and producer
Heidi Tikka - researcher, media artist and producer
Mauri Kaipainen - academic director
Minna Tarkka - artistic director
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Events and outputs
SeminarsRelated presentations and papers
Collaboration partners and networks
HIIT Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (FI)PLAN Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (UK)
MDCN Mobile Digital Commons Network (CA)
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (FI)
COREAA Construction and Reconstruction in Authorship in the Arts
/ Jyväskylä University (FI)
