Project Description

The Wireless Landscape project creates a map of the wireless landscape by walking the streets with a device that listens for wireless access points. The collected information can then be represented digitally with an online mapping tool, or physically with printed maps.

The project is grounded in the theory that by becoming intimate with the existing wireless landscape we better prepare ourselves for the possibility of new wireless landscapes. Those new landscapes may be created in an ad-hoc, grassroots fashion, or they may be created by an overseeing entity such as a city government. The possibility and popularity of metropolitan wireless is constantly expanding, though many attempts at establishing these networks have failed due to a lack of consensus on the implementation.

It is important to be prepared for the inevitability of new wireless landscapes by knowing what already exists, and understanding what is desired. This project aims to collect data and experiential narratives as a means of continuing a dialog about metropolitan wireless networks so that popular consensus may lead to the implementation of new metropolitan wireless networks.

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