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UCLA in Downtown LA: UCLA Joins Downtown Los Angeles Historic Park Project
September 29, 2006
Vice Chancellor of Research, Roberto Peccei, Dean of Theater Film and Television, Bob Rosen, and Mary Nichols, Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment joined Mayor Villaraigosa, Councilman Ed Reyes and other elected officials and community leaders at the dedication of the Los Angeles State Historic Park just north of Chinatown on Saturday, September 23, 2006.
Rosen spoke to the crowd of several hundred from the community who fought long and hard to convince the state to save the property from being developed into warehouses. He outlined UCLA's partnership in the project. REMAP, the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, under the direction of faculty member Fabian Wagmister, will develop a fascinating system for educating parkgoers about the history of the place through technology.
The goal is for parkgoers to stand at various locations in the park and, using cellphones, capture historic images and information that describe what happened on the historic parcel over the course of the past 100 years. This new technology uses embedded sensors and is partially funded by the Center for Community Partnerships as a joint community partnership project with between the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Theater Film and Television.
Wagnister envisions this project eventually going citywide to enrich visitors' and residents' experience of all historic places in the Los Angeles region.
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