Fig. 1 Images from Geovation Challenge (Albagli 2012) I a Ingold’s (2007) poetic metaphor of ‘line-making? is useful here, where he encompasses many human activities, such as walking, observing, storytelling, drawing and writing. All these have commonalities of threads, traces, temporality and trajectories — a process of generating tacit understandings of our surroundings ‘forged in the very course of our moving through them’ (p. 88). This also usefully describes the process of drawing, as seen in the exchanges between the students and team members. These sketches enable a confirmation of the unfolding, unvoiced knowing or other Ingold’s work on mapping is apposite to the co-designing of geomedia services, where the ‘everyday knowing’ and opening-up of stories so locally bound, is critical to designing services. Ingold explains the importance of knowing one’s whereabouts, not by comprehending an independent system of co-ordinates, but by knowing its place through its history. ‘Places exist not in space but as nodes in a matrix of movement’ (2011, p. 219). Knowledge of a place is thus embedded in locally situated practices. In contrast, lines that are made up of dots have no movement (see Fig. 2). The danger of viewing co-designing as an assemblage of stages is to break up the fluid movement into disparate
