quickread
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Project quickread is the brain child of a small team of media design students... who just happen to have an obsessive interest in the dynamic aspects of the written and spoken languages.
Pulling from backgrouds in landscape architecture, architecture, and motion graphics, the team strove to create an interactive book that could engage the user with the environment that surrounds him.
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The Active Listener
Image courtesy of Annie Needham, manipulated by Matt Kizu
Image courtesy of Annie Needham, manipulated by Matt Kizu
The secondary device allows for the user to experience language outside of the written word. Utilizing user uploaded content, audio files are linked to areas within the urban landscape. Each node represents a snippet of audio that personifies a space through language.
Layout designed by Matt Kizu and Annie Needham
Manipulating and understanding language is the primary directive of the complimentary
device. While walking about, the device uses internal GPS to continuously source
audio from nearby locations.
Layout designed by Matt Kizu and Annie Needham
A user may, at any time, overlay, insert, or add his own audio to a space at any given time.
The only requirement is that he be present in the space. Being a present, active listener in the
environment is key to understanding language within a context.