This guide provides instruction on how to co-ordinate production of a Digital Marker and install it publicly for exploration.
Follow the workshop process to assemble documentary materials and prepare them for upload to the network publishing platform. Customise the 3D printed all-weather case and host it’s installation on a local network or outdoors in the wild. When complete please register your marker for public listing.
The guide is illustrated with material from the pilot Digital Marker at ‘Crumbles Castle adventure playground’.
The Castle was built by parents and children in 1970 using the cobbles of the local Beaconsfield tenement buildings known locally as ‘The Crumbles’.
Having welcomed generations of children to play the building was returned to the council in 2019 but its story is far from over as demonstrated in the contributions of the youth, playleaders and Friends of Crumbles.
Digital Marker is as a low-cost DIY network publishing platform for registering histories and assembling archives, in a co-production of cultural artifacts, making community knowledge publicly visible and mapping the changing conditions of any location.
Throughout history, free-standing sculptural monoliths have been used as boundary markers, landmarks and as commemorative statues; areas within our cities are marked by permanent public monuments that call on a distant history. Digital Marker provides a platform that is autonomous, contingent, co-authored by the community and sited within the local area.
The collaboration has been made possible with the help and support of people at Crumble’s adventure playground, Islington Play Association, Central Saint Martins UAL, SPC with DesignScapes funding from the EU. Find the project disclaimer here.
Contact guide@digitalmarkers.net for more information, your comments and contributions are welcome.
