A 4-unit residential field and studio course held as part of the UC Berkeley summer session under the course number Anthropology 136e. Count on all day (8.30-5.30) Monday-Friday, May 27-June 13.  The course is limited to 12 participants. Cultural Heritage and other professionals as well as students are welcome. Participants will have the option of staying at the SF Presidio for the duration of the field-school.There are no prerequisites for the  course, although a familiarity with the Internet and basic tasks in digital technology is assumed. The course will focus on the real world challenge of creating interpretive trails and other installations for the public that involve wireless technology, digital geo-mapping, storytelling etc, globally and, specifically, at the El Presidio fort and the trail s to its southeast at the San Francisco Presidio. The course will involve the design, field trial, and documentation of these different formats of representation of cultural heritage places. More about the course......

The instructors are UC Berkeley Professor of Anthropology Ruth Tringham and Dr. Michael Ashley (Office of the UC Berkeley CIO), along with a number of local archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage managers and New Media specialists at the SF Presidio and the SF Bay Area. Instruction will be a daily combination of lecture, demonstration, workshops, and field training and practice  in and around the site of the El Presidio Fort and in the multimedia lab located in the Officers’ Club building at the San Francisco Presidio. More about the Presidio....

For the most up-to-date information about the course and its activities, visit the course website and blog at Remixing El Presidio.

For information about registration go to the UC Berkeley Summer Sessions website

                Movies about previous versions of this course and Digital Archaeology at the Presidio

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