Based on digital models of real cities, "HyperCities" is a web-based learning platform that connects geographical locations with stories of the people who live there and those who have lived there in the past. Through collaboration between universities and community partners in Los Angeles, Lima, Berlin, and Rome, HyperCities will develop and offer a participatory, open-ended learning environment grounded in space and time, place and history, memory and social interaction, oral history and digital media.
HyperCities Team:
- Public Matters
- Filipino Workers' Center
- UCLA
HyperCities PDUB in the news:
- Hi-Fi's High-Tech Histories
- Hi-Fi Tours Event
- Time Travel in L.A.'s Historic Filipinotown
- City/Culture: To Them, the Public Matters
- HyperCities: Mobile Media Tours of Historic Filipinotown Launch
- HyperCities 2.0 Launches with Mobile Media Tours
- HyperCities: Mobile Media Tour of Hi-Fi a Resounding Success
- LAist: Historic Filipino Tours
- Urban Renewal: Some Lessons for HyperCities from the Preserving Virtual Worlds Project
- Hyper-Driven
HyperCities Press:
- HyperCities Now: Linking GIS and Twitter (Japan, Egypt, Libya)
- HyperCities Egypt Featured on NBC L.A.
- Coalition for Networked Information: HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers
Research and HyperCities:
- “HyperCities: Building a Web 2.0 Learning Platform,” in: Teaching Literature at A Distance, eds. Anastasia Natsina and Takis Tagialis (Continuum Books, 2010), 171-82.
- “Hegel’s Philosophy of History via Sebald’s Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the ‘New Space’ of Modernity,” in The Ruins of Modernity, eds. Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 193-211.
- "Hypercities: A Case Study for the Future of Scholarly Publishing," The Shape of Things to Come, ed. Jerome McGann (Houston: Rice University Press, 2010), 251-7. Also available online: http://cnx.org/content/m34318/latest/
- "Digital Humanities 2.0: A Report on Knowledge," Emerging Disciplines, ed. Melissa Bailar,(Houston: Rice University Press, 2010), 63-86. Also available online: http://cnx.org/content/m34246/latest/
- New Historic Filipino Collection (extensive library of video/ oral histories): http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/#collections/33713
Awards:
- Hypercities GeoScribe receives Google Digital Humanities Research Award
- Haynes Foundation Grant for Mapping Los Angeles Research Online with HyperCities: An Open Access Publishing and Collaboration Platform
HyperCities Social Media:
