Victoria
University of Wellington’s latest foray into interactive digital design has
launched at the 2018 Writers & Readers Festival.
LitAtlas, a literary atlas of
Wellington, is a smartphone-enabled app that takes you on a stroll around
Wellington’s waterfront in the virtual company of some of the country’s
favourite writers.
LitAtlas
combines geo-location tracking, kinetic typography and augmented reality. “It
lifts poetry off the page, animates it in the landscape, and allows users to
generate their own poems that can be tweeted out to the world,” says Project
Director, Dr Sydney Shep from Victoria’s Wai-te-ata Press.
“As a form of
location-based or ambient literature, LitAtlas not only foregrounds the act of
interpretation but provides opportunities for co-creation,” she says.
Victoria’s
Media Design Programme Director Dr Walter Langelaar, IT Specialist Matt
Plummer, Dr Shep and a team of five students from the School of Design and
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies have collaborated on the app
to connect landscape with technology and demonstrate how new media can reinvent
digital space.
The free
downloadable app is available at litatlas.nz 
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