ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the conditions of the landscape as a database and the possibilities that this holds for reconfiguring both the representation of the landscape and the practices that can occur within it. The Treasure Trapper project was developed in such a way as to directly affect tourists' behaviour across the cultural landscape of Edinburgh. The Flows art installation explores the experimental use of cars as a manifestation of flow across social networks. The Treasure Trapper project was a seven-month project developed by the authors for Edinburgh Museums and Art Galleries, The Assembly Rooms, and Edinburgh Bus Tours. CoGet looks further into the future and posits an entirely different representation of the urban landscape, one in which people become coordinates for exchange rather than the postcodes and buildings. Both CoGet and Treasure Trapper demonstrate how new social practices can emerge from an interoperability between different data sets.
