Location-based annotation
An intriguing example of location-based annotation. This red brick inserted in the pavement on Rue de la République in Lyon (France) indicates that former french president Sadi Carnot had been assassinated here on June 25th, 1894. The sort of things that people want to replicate online, but it generally lacks the elegance of the “brick” as en urban element well inserted into its context.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I wonder if you’ve heard of this project: Stolpersteine (roughly “stumbling blocks”) has been running for a couple of years now. Artist Gunter Demnig inscribes cobblestones with the names of people who were killed or disappeared during the Third Reich and then places them in front of the houses they owned or lived in. He has done so in dozens of cities all over Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands. There were several of them in the street I used to live in - quite literally, footnotes to my city’s history.