Media in Public

Rock Art Mobile Project

Researcher: [Reading lollipop stick]This landscape makes me feel carefree.

James: That’s me. Go out walking on the hills, forget all your worries. When you’re on the top of a hill looking down across the landscape, just carefree.

[…]

Kenneth: I’ve been up there sometimes and there’s no one there for hours. Carefree? You feel you own the place!

[General nodding.]

James: That’s right. It becomes yours for that brief time.

Sense of Place 1

Researcher: [Reading from lollipop stick] This landscape makes me feel alive,

free and fit.

Dennis: Well, it does! Oh yes, compared to sitting in front of the telly in the

lounge. You’re much more alive. Wind in your hair, and all the rest

of it. It just, bucks me up.

Researcher: This one says, this landscape makes me feel reflective and

exhilarated.

George: That’s more or less, you know, feeling about the past and thinking

about the people and then just exhilarated because there’s the

wind in the hair, fine weather, lovely landscape.

Researcher: Refreshed. This landscape makes me feel refreshed.

[…]

Chris: You feel refreshed physically. It’s like mentally, when you realise

that your own 80 year lifespan is totally trivial compared to all

these people who were there so much earlier.

Sense of Place 2

Group Conversations 1

Douglas:

Well one of the main things about today was having someone to talk to that knew what they were talking about. Normally as part of my courses I'd be taking them up to the Kettley Stone and I'd be telling them what little I know and it's good to, you know, just to knock some ideas around. What was the million dollar question, you know: What are these things? Let's start from there. Half a hour, once that question was asked – so many threads.

Group Conversations 2

John:

I’ve seen some rock art on Doddington. What was interesting today was it was with a group of people who’d come to look at it.

And lots of questions were raised about what you’re looking at, whereas if you’re doing it by yourself or with just a couple of friends, half the questions that were raised today would never have occurred to us.

So it felt much more informed.

Sense of Touch 1

Lauren: I remember the last time we went to visit rock art, another member

of the group got the paintbrush and was sweeping the thing - and it

was extremely pleasant to watch somebody, sort of like, nurturing the

rock. And she, she got very slow and very, sort of, delicate with it, and

it was almost meditative. It's like going and petting a rock.

Douglas: It's a way of learning about it as well. Because I mean I buy old

motorcycles and bits of antiques and I always think the best way to

find out about something is like, you go out and buy a motorcycle, the

first thing you do is clean it. And you run your hands over it, you going

over it, and the same with a piece of furniture you're cleaning it. And

it's bringing you into contact with it, you notice things. You know. It’s a

way of relating to it using something that's in us.

Sense of Touch 2

Karin:

I felt touching it was really important. I felt like it was really made to my scale.

It was made by humans, and it was made by humans like me.

And my heels fitted into the holes and my hands fitted into the holes and it really felt like I could relate to that with my body.

And that was really special.

Connecting with the Past 1

Catherine:

I was just thinking what’s coming across to me at the moment is you know, the context as well. And it being a multisensory experience where you can almost get in touch with the rock and the setting and the views, you know, you have the fresh air. Personally when I’ve been up on the hill I’m kind of almost constantly wondering, what did this place look like when this was made? What kind of landscape did they see? How did they relate to it? And of course these questions almost never really know the answer to, it’s kind of connects you with the past really.

Connecting with the Past 2

Anita:

By the time we got to this one, I started to realise that you could see where the tools had gone in. But not only just that, but you then look out and you think of the person who was doing that.

And what the landscape looked like then. You start to connect back.

By directly touching, you are touching something that somebody 6000 years ago touched. And that's just wonderful to be able to do that.

Design Requirement

Incorporate the camera

feature of a mobile

phone in your design

Design Requirement

Incorporate haptic

feedback

in your design

Design Requirement

Incorporate the use of directional sensors (e.g. accelerometers,

gyroscope) in your design