Vanessa Campbell, Dante Cerron, Olivia Chen, David Gaertner, Daisy Rosenblum

The hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Locative Audio app

The Geospatial Media application, created at the CEDaR Space (Daisy Rosenblum and David Gaertner, co-PIs) in partnership with the Emerging Media Lab, is a geolocated audio application delivering on-demand, site-specific audio. The CEDaR team worked with Vanessa Campbell and Musqueam Language and Culture to develop the application's inaugural project, create an audio tour of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ street signs installed at the University of British Columbia.

Scan the QR code to hear Vanessa Campbell pronounce "q̓ʷeχt". q̓ʷeχt" was the name Musqueam chose for Agricultural Road as it means a place for cultivating food.

As a ‘relational technology’ the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Locative Audio app holds ground amid algorithmic paradigms that colonize virtual worlds, and provides a model for how collaborative design, agile development, community protocols can inform our stewardship of cultural knowledge within and between embodied and digital contexts.

Geospatial audio tour

Vanessa Campbell, Dante Cerron, Olivia Chen, David Gaertner, Daisy Rosenblum (2022)