73urbanjourneys.com is designed to explore, experience and capture textual, visual and sensual narratives of the mobile London urban experience.

The project came about in June 2003 during a short term research fellowship of three months at INCITE, at the University of Surrey. During that time I looked at the relationship between technology use and senses of place in urban mobile settings. I made this website and started to blog. Due to lots of supportive, constructive and just plain weird responses from people from all over the world I blogged for three+ years. See it here.

Using a website and two linked blogs I experimented with visual methodologies and the challenges of gathering data online, collating and analysing it in various visual ways. I'm interested in making things that intervene in the research process - things that people make, contribute to, play with, engage in or experiment with - like bus boxes, bus cards, stories, the blog etc.

73urbanjourneys.com is part of a larger research study originally conceived by Nina Wakeford (INCITE) for a collaboration with INTEL Research Council. Called Urban Mobilities; Locating Consumption of Ubiquitous Content, it looked at the relationship between mobility and experience of place, with particular reference to the use of digital content and involved a qualitative study of spaces in London in which people consume information.This is an early report on the project, NIna and Genevieve Bell (INTEL) by BBC News.

My project builds upon this research by undertaking an ethnographic and observational study of the No.73 bus exploring its route, passengers, history and iconic place in the urban landscape. The use of a transport route as a way of sampling places in the city was inspired by François Maspero's writings.

This site links to two other parts of the project;

73 bus blog - my personal experience of the bus.
You can add to the blog or email me directly.

73 bus story blog- 73, 73 word stories about the No.73 bus