Intel hosted these forums in 2003 The Meaning of Place: technological imagination and human experience.
"New technologies are reconfiguring our relationship to the places we inhabit.With the near ubiquitous presence of cell phones in many cities, the rise of wireless networks,hybrid games,the use of geographical information systems, and the emergence of an embedded computing research agenda in many labs, physical location has re-emerged as an important construct in the imagination of and creation of new technologies.But humans think of place quite differently than our technologies might demand. We inhabit places, not physical coordinates or zones of reception. Places are imbued with meaning through cultural practice; places are bounded and denoted in ways that may or may not match physical or technological means. This forum is intended to understand how the human construction of place both affects and is affected by new technologies...."

[Meaning of Place Forum and Workshop]