Cultour Mobile App and Reading Through Light – Sivuvalo and University of Veracruz

In 2016, Amado Peña and Diana Rosy Ricárdez López visited Helsinki as part of an internship program in collaboration with University of Veracruz. During their visit, both students developed projects related to the reading promotion.

Cultour – interaktiivista tarinankerrontaa Google Mapsin kautta

Screen Shot 2016-05-14 at 14.06.10 Cultour is a mobile app that seeks to create literary routes with google.maps database, it is an invitation to visit different cities as if you were a character in a story. The users will be able to make a tour trough Helsinki following the rout of transcultural writers Finland-based, tracking international literature in its own city. (Language: English).
Project coordination: Amado Peña (Sivuvalo’s Intern | UV)

– The beta version of the app will be available to download during ‘Carte Blanche’ (for Android only).

Reading Through Light (RTL) – valokuvan kautta lukemiseen

Screen Shot 2016-05-14 at 14.07.14 This project is an attempt to combine literature and photography trough post-card creation, using the intersection between two disciplines to promote the readability of multilingual literature made in Finland. Using the poems of transcultural writers Finland-based, the photos will represent a contribution, an explanation or an interpretation of the texts itself.
Project coordination: Diana Rosy Ricárdez López (Sivuvalo’s Intern | UV)

– Cultour and RTL projects are possible under Sivuvalo‘s internship programme in collaboration with Universidad Veracruzana (University of Veracruz, Mexico) and Dr. Olivia Jarvio (UV).