>>>> "Open source city : collaborative mapping" workshop

>>>> The " Trans-Cultural Mapping " program stops in Strasbourg for the "Open source city : collaborative mapping" workshop. The Strasbourg TCM workshop will follow the 5th RAM workshop entitled "Open Source Media Architecture" that will take place from May 4th to 9th, 2004 in Riga, Latvia, organised by the RIXC. Open Source ideas -- that has its origins in the scientific and computer programming communities, where research is shared within a network for the common advancement of the field -- will be used and extended in both events. An exhibition will be set up and modified until the final version that will stay in Syndicat Potentiel space one month after the festival. The Strasbourg results will be presented in Riga for the Art+Communication Festival organised by the RIXC in october 2004 as a cloture of the TCM program.

>>>> Open Source City includes psychohistorical walks in city center, psychogeographical studies and drifts through the city using wearable computing devices, wardriving, open source mapping jams, city scale Go game, unitary urbanism re-considerations, and lectures with Brian Holmes, Karen O’Rourke, Thierry Ramadier, Thierry Hatt, and panel discussions with participants.

We were a wi-fi sniffing group. We walked around the city center of strasbourg and tracking all possible wireless network and by using the GPS (global positioning system) module, we got the track of our route.

collaboration with

luka frelih (ljubljana, slovenia)

alejo duque (columbia)