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Staycation?

As the economy changed, so did our language around vacation. People began to realize they wanted to take advantage of hard earned vacation from work while spending less; the word staycation became popular. The idea is to stay at home for vacation and focus on local opportunities to relax and explore. Norwegian Cruise Lines has now given us a way to staycation and still see the world. Vacationer channel organizes travel videos in one place by area and gives it an iTunes feel. If you want to see the world for free, here is the place and maybe, just maybe, be inspired for a trip later. I love this idea. I think it could use some refinement, but what a great way to keep inspiring people to learn and grow from the safety of their computer when they don’t feel they can afford to leave home. 

2010
09/09
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PSFK “Good Ideas for 2010”

Knape got all of us the PSFK book “Good Ideas for 2010” after I found a few of their slides online, and as I went through this book I found that there were some really good examples that I wanted to share and expand on.

Very plannery, the section I was really interested in is called “Guide.”  It is described as:  Point out to others the joy of the world around us.  Find, show, describe, illuminate. Kinda sounds like a planning job description, huh?

The two examples that I particularly liked as expressions of guidance:

  • Artist Brett Ian Balogh paints the invisible web of information around us by studying geospatial data provided by the FCC in his project A Noospheric Atlas Of The United States. brettbalogh.com
    • Beyond this example, Brett Balogh does a number of projects that relate information in different ways.  You can find his ongoing work on the website as well.
  • Transportation planners in Tigard in Oregon are mapping ‘neighborhood trails’ like cut throughs and desire trails that define community. prj.kittelson.com/tigardtrails

Both of these examples are similar in that they are showing us new ways of how people can or do perceive their surroundings.  Especially with the convergence of online versus offline lives, it’s interesting to see data applied to life and life applied to data.

We don’t often think about the invisible world of waves and signals even though it is such a big part of our daily lives – from cell phone signal and WiFi to satellite TV and GPS.  We connect to these things but they are almost magical in that they are not physical things we see.

Beyond being perhaps tactically applied to travel and tourism (there are some fun things we could do to tie in a walking tour or see things from a local perspective), something like the Tigard Trails may help us think about the way people want to access travel information.  These ideas only help us connect more deeply and authentically with people.

I think it’s worth looking into other ways and thinking about how people connect with their surroundings.

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07/08
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