PhoneMe Workshop

Word Vancouver

PhoneMe  brings together user-generated content + mobile technologies to facilitate a social network for place-based poetic expression

Presented by Word Vancouver and the University of British Columbia, PhoneMe provides a global interactive map with poems publicly pinned at specific locations; each pin includes the poem in text form, audio recording of the poet reading their poem, and visual panorama of the location. PhoneMe was first hosted at phonemeproject.com, and has since been released on Google Play and the App Store as a free mobile app available worldwide. In this workshop, we will introduce participants to the PhoneMe project and the idea of mobile devices serving the needs of poets. We’ll explore some of the features and poems on the app, and then engage in working with place-based writing prompts to produce poems about specific locations and events that warrant poetic commemoration to publish on PhoneMe. Finally, we will share poems and create an instant network of writers involved in the workshop so that we can continue to build on these connections to people and places once the workshop is over. This workshop is open to anyone interested in poetry and the important role that place-based knowledge plays in our lives.

About the PhoneMe team

Kedrick James is a poet and spoken word artist who is committed to ecological and place-based awareness in keeping with Indigenous ways of knowing. He is a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Digital Literacy Centre, a site of research and software development focused on digital language and literary innovation. He has been involved in Canadian literature for the past 35 years and has been a literary publisher, festival director, and internationally touring artist for much of that time. He also spent many years as an artist and curator working in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.

Rachel Horst is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in 21st century literacies and futures literacies as conceptualized through an ontology of difference. Her work explores the confluence of digital technologies, writing-as-becoming, and narrative futuring for cultivating the future(s) imaginary. Informed by decolonial discourse, diffraction, and affirmative difference, she engages with arts-based and experimental methodologies that explore the aesthetic nature of qualitative research.

Yuya Takeda is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC. He has been a part of the PhoneMe team since 2016 and involved in various PhoneMe workshops, development of the app, and research projects. His dissertation research investigates how conspiracy theories should be discussed in critical media literacy education. Takeda is also a street photographer. To find out more, please visit yuyapecotakeda.com

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