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Presented by Kate O’Neill
The Meaning of Place
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[imagine a picture
of me in college.]
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“Home and Wandering.”
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What does a place mean?
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What do I mean by “meaning”?
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Let’s back up.
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My work has always been about relevance and meaningful
experiences.language:
the vehicle of meaning.how we convey
intent and significance.
the Web / Internet:how we capture
and transmit knowledge globally
data:how we model
what is potentially meaningful
marketing: how we understand
what has value to whom in what context,
and influence intentthrough alignment
and relevance
experiences
human understanding
meaning
relevance
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speaker intent message
listener takeaway
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speaker intent message
listener takeaway
shared understanding
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context
speaker intent message
listener takeaway
shared understanding
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…back to "Home and Wandering"
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(pho
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planned center of town
(image source w
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.cnuil.org)
my first childhood
home
my second childhood
home
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where you are empowered to
create your own experiences.
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Why do we "wander" or travel?
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Why do we* encourage students to leave home?
* “we” as a society, I mean
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"how very college of you"
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“wander” or leave home
to be jarred into seeing ourselves.
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. … And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
― Pico Iyer
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So to make people want to “wander”
towards your place…
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Help people see themselves
there.
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To make people feel at “home” there…
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Help people feel empowered to
create their own experiences.
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Part of the meaning of place is…
in how empowered we feel to create our
experiences.
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How can we architect meaningful
experiences without being contrived?
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Distill everything about a place,
its identity, culture, etc.
down to an essence.
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By the way…Digital experience should
not impede physical experience
It should empower it
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Metaphor, Significance and symbolism: what
does a thing signify?
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How to distill a brand's essence without being
reductive or overly simplistic
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Let’s look right here: at Nashville.
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(pho
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hville
reco
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.com
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The Flood of 2010
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(imag
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ABC
Stu
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/ am
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)
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How do you promote something with so
many stories?
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recognizable truths.
And a bit of mythology.
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Meaning is relative and contextual.
And it’s inseparable from
relevance.
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Part of the meaning of place is…
in the stories we collectively tell
about it.
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How do you get it across to someone what a place could MEAN to THEM?
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Take inventory of your stories.
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Identify your prompts.
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“Never let the facts get in the way of a
good story.”— Mark Twain
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“Never let the facts get in the way of a
good story.”— Mark Twain
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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
— Mark Twain
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“The difference between comedy and tragedy is
where you stop telling the story.”
— Neil Gaiman
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context
speaker intent message
listener takeaway
shared understanding
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Community is meaning writ large.
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Part of the meaning of place is…
in the community we create there.
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For a college campus
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For a city like Nashville
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For a conference like this.
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‣ is in how empowered we feel to create our own experiences there.
‣ is in the stories we collectively tell about it.
‣ is in the community we create there.
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