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Research on Place and Space , coordinated by Bruce B. Janz, Associate Professor of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, at the University of Central Florida, is an extremely valuable collection of links to web sites, journals, and articles which examine concepts of place. Though there are occasional dead links, it’s organization by discipline is helpful both in exploring the multifaceted ways in which people define and respond to place and in realizing their interrelationships.
Putting People First, Daily insights on user experience, experience design, and people-centered innovation, is a compilation site as well, hosted by Experientia, an international experience design consultancy based in Italy. As would be expected, the site itself is user friendly in making available collections of articles pertaining to the many elements of successful design and interaction. The site often features articles that examine how cultural issues affect usability and values and vice versa. It’s section on creativity has been of particular interest thus far.
Copenhagenize , and the Slow Bicycle Movement in general, are valuable not so much in their representation of a particular culture but because they provide such an excellent example of how changing the perception of a single type of residual object or activity – bicycles and bicycling in this case – from one of triviality to one of utility, recreation to transportation, can lead to more significant cultural shifts. Though this type of phenomenon is relatively common as we adapt new technology, it’s less so as a matter of readopting old.
