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SRSI, Day 28: Speed Dating for Store Owners

By Michelle Soulliere on July 9th, 2010, 5:35 pm 4 Comments

IMG 1618 SRSI, Day 28: Speed Dating for Store Owners

Thursday was the Storefront Success Stories Speed Dating for Store Owners event down on Pelissier for SRSI, and Justin set up a window installation using the Arduino.

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Psychogeographic Map: East Chinatown’s living and dead businesses and their smells

By Justin Langlois on July 10th, 2009, 12:51 am 2 Comments

psychogeographic map

This is a small excerpt of a large map made by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop, depicting the East Chinatown neighbourhood, its businesses and their smells.

You should take a look at the larger map, which helps to demonstrate the potential in mapping outside of the continually pervasive Google Maps.

To take time to note a neighbourhood in this somewhat peculiar detail is an interestingly necessary method for interfacing with a place one might normally walk by, and in turn, of course, makes me eager to do the same somewhere around these parts.

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