We are not alone!
Here are links to other big and small projects that are dealing with borders, participatory photography or map based mobile emotion measures in similar, or very different, but related, ways. This page is in development and will be greatly expanded!
Please, help us find and suggest more related projects, ideas or concepts! Fill out the form at the bottom of the page!
Multimedia:
Mappiness, London School of Economics iphone app mapping happiness in the UK.
Mapping Main Street, large collaborative multimedia interactive project mapping and documenting the 10,466 Main Streets in the US.
7 Billion Others, Yann Arthus-Bertrand´s massive global project asking the big questions of life to people of all colors on all continents.
Cowbird, very good looking community story sharing site by Jonathan Harris.
Digital Histories, Queens Museum of Art and José E. Rodríguez project uncovering people´s own stories along the New York number 7 Subway line between Times Square and Flushing Main Street.
Films:
Life In A Day, film project by Kevin Macdonald. People across the globe sent their videos to the director on Youtube and he made a full length documentary out of it that premiered on the Sundance Film Festival 2011, with great success.
Born Into Brothels, film based on street kids own pictures in the slums of Kolkata in India, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski. Won the 2004 Oscar for best feature documentary.
Kingsley´s crossing, Olivier Jobard´s still picture based migration drama from Cameroon to Paris.
(link suggested by Caroline Dijckmeester Bins)
In This World, Michael Winterbottom´s cinema verite style fiction film about two Afghan boys and their migration to Europe won a Bafta Award in London and a Golden Bear in Berlin in 2004.
Connected borders, three film crews cover the US- Mexico, Spanish- Moroccan and Israel- Palestinian borders in this soon to come interactive project by Sebastien Wielemans.
(link suggested by Francois Vaxelaire)
Blogs and other:
The Economist Opinion Clouds, cloud visualization of, and linkages between, the stories in The Economist.
Borderlines, Opinionator online series by Frank Jacobs in The New York Times.
(link suggested by Diego Escosteguy)
People Move, a blog on migration, remittances and development by Dilip Ratha, lead economist at the World Bank.
(link suggested by Marie Doezema)
Menas Borders, security consultant group dealing with international borders and boundaries.
Academic:
Border Poetics Project, University of Tromsø research project analysing border-crossing narratives in literary texts.
Association for Borderland Studies, leading scholarly association gathering more than one hundred academic, governmental institutions, and NGOs representing the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe to study international borders.
Center for Border Research, border research center at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
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