December 2008 Hong Kong

7scenes is currently in Hong Kong with the urban game Re-architect produced specifically for the Detour program of the Business of Design Week. Re-architect is a photographic treasure hunt that guides players along architectural landmarks in the Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok area. At the game locations players investigate and photograph buildings and spaces based on the (Chinese and European) design principles of an architect, such as harmony, balance, functional honesty, feng shui, re-use and much more.

Re-architect is played on Tuesday Dec. 9th '08 and Thursday Dec. 11th '08.

For more details please check out www.re-architect.org.

Donkeypedia is a cross medial project where a donkey and its friend Christian Bettini travel through The Netherlands. Along their travel they pass 8 schools and write, photograph and make movieclips about the locations students send them to - locations they find scary, enchanting or the ideal dreamy getaway. After The Netherlands Christian and his donkey will travel to other European countries. Read more at www.donkeypedia.nl.

Donkeypedia is built on 7scenes technology and created their own spectacular user interfaces.

september 24th and 25th 2008 - Amsterdam
During this years Picnic festival Waag Society will organise two Locative Lab sessions in which participants can create new mobile concepts in a hands-on way using 7scenes. September 24th will focus on education, looking at the city as a new learning environment and september 25th will focus on cultural heritage, seeing the city as an exhibition space.

For a full schedule, please check out the Labs on the Picnic website.

june 2008 - Utrecht

De Zingende Stad (The Singing Town) is a vocal, interactive multimedia art project. A tool which can be used by children, their parents, youngsters, tourists - actually everybody - to enrich to everyday environment with their own virtual sound-signature. De Zingende Stad is a concept of Yo! Opera Werkplaats and Waag Society. In 2007 a first pilot started in a neighbourhood Ondiep of Utrecht. De Zingende Stad uses 7Scenes to create and experience  so-called 'song trails'. First experiments with pupils of De Rietendakschool in Utrecht were very succesful. Yo! Opera has been awarded by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds for Art and Culture education.

august 9th 2008 - Amsterdam
2008 is the Dutch year of Religious Heritage, reason for Waag Society and Erfgoed Nederland to start a project on rituals. In the Rituals project, people are invited to tell the stories of their personal religious objects, experiences and rituals. These stories are then linked to movable and immovable heritage in museums and archives, at archaeological sites or inside buildings and public spaces by means of location-based mobile technology, among other things. This creates layers of meaning based on the views of other people with regard to our everyday reality. The project may also result in the mapping out of certain routes across the city.

These can be plotted in the form of modern-day processions. Where are your places of worship? How do you recognise spirituality in a hectic urban environment? Where do you find inspiration? 7scenes was used as locative platform to create interactive rituals routes.