Location-Based Stories of Barcelona

Histories de Barcelona acts a bit like a spatial city blog. It allows citizens to annotate the map of Barcelona with their stories categorized in topics such as love, fiction, historic, daily life. More than a 1000 geolocated stories have been written so far. With “Accessible Barcelona” it is the second Barcelona-based spatial annotation service that highlighting the non-perceivable aspects of the city.

JOSEP, IT IS LATER THAN 3:00am

Relation to my thesis: I am fascinated by the implicit aspects of a city. The daily very visible that yet resides in the background of our attention. Engaging spatial annotation scenarios that “make the implicit explicit” could be used as one context for my thesis… or not.