City inhabitants are invited to share their places through the special website where they can see only their own suggestions, but not the other places.
To find the places people have to go to the city and use phone to search. After starting the application users have to sway the phone as a pendulum and walk with it. They are navigated by vibrations of the phone, which become stronger as person gets closer to the place. As soon as the location is reached the audio file associated to it plays, revealing the story or the music connected to this place in mind of other citizen.
This “social map” can be changing with the seasons, weather and time of the day to bring the best experiences matching current conditions in the city.
This application helps to connect the social dimension of the city to the physical space showing that places include not only “bricks and mortar” but people inhabiting them. The selected way of navigation takes user’s attention away from the phone screen bringing it back to the city. On their way around people can see new places and try to guess what can be interesting there and where are they are guided to. Mainly they can share others’ experiences and see the city with the different eyes. But besides that they are getting their own experience of the city while searching for other’s places. They may get disoriented or even lost on the way, which brings back a need in the navigation skills and exploration spirit tend to be forgotten with adoption of GPS-enabled devices.
