Cool Idea: Telling stories through Foursquare: Derby 2061 (Wired UK)

Richard Birkin of production company Mudlark is experimenting with using Foursquare as a storytelling platform, turning it into a wormhole to the future.

The project is called Derby 2061, and imagines a future where a company has used the vast amounts of personal data being made public online to allow people to experience the memories of other people. The result is a memory economy, where people's emotions, thoughts and feelings can be bought and sold.

Birkin has set up more than 50 Foursquare locations around Derby city centre and Darley Abbey, exploring what the city might look like in half a century's time. They're organised into a list, which you can find here.

"There's a story in it to find. In fact there are a few," says Birkin in a blog post on Mudlark's site. "There's the story of new industry, of civilian life in a new culture changed by it, the story of buildings being repurposed, of politics, of clock-making and time. All told by a female guide from the future."

For example, when you arrive, you can check into Derby Monorail Interchange & Vacuum SubLine Hub on Foursquare and read tips about the memory ports in the carriages.

via wired.co.uk

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