2nd screen -Scott Patterson

Since leaving Thinkmap Scott Patterson has begun to explore architecture as an interface between the activity of our daily lives and the space of the digital network. PDPAL is a mobile and PDA based mapping and storytelling project. PDPAL is a multi-component public art project that allows audiences to map their own personal vision of public space. It pushes the notion of mapping and attempts to transfer your everyday activities in to a dynamic interface. This is a quote from the PDPAL website about what the project is about “PDPal engages the user through a visual transformation that is meant to highlight the way technologies that locate and orient are often static and without reference to the lively nature of urban cultural environments.”

KEY points:
· PDPAL a.k.a Personal Digital Pal
· Guided by a streetwise urban and witty park ranger.
· A project for palm PDA’s, mobile phones and the web.

*Scott Patterson wanted to explore architecture as an interface