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Stella Wisdom

Stella Wisdom

Stella Wisdom is a Digital Curator at the British Library; promoting new methods of research using born digital and digitised collections. She is interested in creative innovation and partnerships, especially regarding games and digital storytelling in libraries. She has collaborated widely, with The National Videogame Museum, International Games Week in Libraries, Cityread London, and on research projects with University College London’s Institute of Education and Lancaster University with the Chronotopic Cartographies project and Litcraft initiative.
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desire path

A term mostly used by town planners or architects to describe the short-cut paths created by people. So a path around a square ‘green’ will often have a desire path cutting off the corners. Town planners recognise them as an admission that the initial path was put in the wrong place. Called ‘Elephant Paths’ in some countries.

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