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This chapter unpacks the approaches to creative measuring that work across many scales and dimensions of action, signalling the challenges and offerings that a creative project that surveys multi-scalar relationships entails. The chapter explores the mediation of technological systems that connect individuals to both local and global scales of movement. An emphasis on consumer technologies such as GPS enabled devices, online mapping software, and fitness trackers enable individuals to “know” their location and position in the world through various mobile, technological, and biological techniques. Examples are drawn from the authors’ creative artworks, experiments, and participatory activities that provide a wide range of approaches, sensibilities, and sites of intervention to and locate one’s position in relation to, and across, multiple scales.
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Barry, K., Keane, J. (2019). Multi-scalar Shifts and Drifts. In: Creative Measures of the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9648-9_3
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