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Gorky Park
Alla Grishko !Mobile Culture and Urban
Spaces!
“Moscow’s Gorky Park used to be a place to avoid. Now it’s a magnet for the Russian
bourgeoisie”
-‐ Thedailybeast.com , 14 November 2011
What is Gorky Park?
• Gorky park is an official guide to Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in downtown of Moscow, by which ciEzens and visitors can get most actual informaEon about daily acEviEes in the park, food, art, exhibiEons, music performances, cinema, sport acEviEes and much more.
• It is first mobile app to public space in Russia and can be either context-‐aware and not.
Relation to cultural purpose Users can discover: • Planned exhibiEons and fests • Find cultural monuments and
history of them • Program of summer cinema • Current acEviEes by the
Emeline
Interaction with the city
• It’s a guide to exisEng and very popular place, melEng spot of Russian capital
• Users can interact with real objects such as buildings, sculptures, art objects, sport places, entertainment, etc.
• Consumers can orientate themselves on a site by GPS, though it’s not necessary
Contribution User’s feedback Like, Share & Invite
Navigation 1. Top events
Navigation 1. Top events
Navigation 2. List of activities
Navigation 3. Map
Navigation
Coming soon
My impression
Improvements that can make it even beQer: • to adapt screen resoluEon at least to IPhone 5
• to add opEon of changing the language (vital for tourists and expats)
• to add buQon “back”
Technical parameters Name and version
Gorky Park 1.0.1
Type Guide
OperaEonal System iOS (Android and Windows are announced to be released later)
Minimum screen resoluEon required
320x480, 640x960
Minimum OS version required
iOS 4.0 or higher
NaEve or Web-‐App NaEve
Cost Free of charge
Source hQps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gorky-‐park/id549152154?mt=8
Thank you!