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Trolley Spotting, by Adele Prince, uses an interactive map to document the artist’s findings from recent ‘trolley spotting’ trips.
The shopping trolleys that have been abandoned (or ‘liberated’) from supermarkets manage to travel quite some distance from their ‘home’ supermarket, and often start to acquire items as they go.
The website allows you an insight into the private lives of shopping trolleys which have escaped the supermarkets. Using GPS, Prince tracks the co-ordinates of each trolley. She takes a photograph of it, document the model and make of the trolley, the date, time, location and distance from the supermarket. This information is then transferred to an interactive map online, where visitors can go on a virtual trolley spotting walk and play a shopping cart game.
This reminded me of a study of a friend: Gabriel Fernandez on the micro-mobility life of the shopping carts:
Trolley and infra-housing: mobile devices and transitory occupation of the social city space
(Abstract) This contribution, fundamentallly based on the working developed by the authors in Quilmes University (Argentina) present an approch to urban mobility, infra-housing, social space. It also draws the attention over the particular effects of this phenomenon in the social space transitory occupation and think about problems and opportunities it´s offering, as a matter that must affect to advance a epistemology discussion and a mobile devices classification
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