Course 3.314 Virtual Places
- A simple list of links for further
information and downloads:
UPDATED May 2, 2003
Virtual
Places - Final Presentation and discussion
Monday
May 5, 9.30-15.15 in SkolrŒdssalen (the administration building)
Proposal
for the agenda of the day:
Part
1: Virtuality, architecture, body and nature
9.30
Marika Bremer (Opponents: Karin Iversen and Vania Gaetti)
9.55
Rene Lindsay (Lenz) (Opponents: Stella Pantelia, Jeremy Brault)
10.15
Kenneth Jensen (Opponents: Brian San, Sampoo Perttula)
10.40
Brian San: (Opponents: Rene Lindsay, Edwin Strik)
10.55
Jeremie Brault (Opponents: Jani Jansson, Brian San)
11.15
Karen Iversen (Opponents: Marika Bremer, Oded Stahl)
Part
2: Virtuality, the city, social relations and identity
11.35
Jani Jansson (Opponents: Edwin Strik, Karen Iversen)
12.00
Lunch
13.00
Stella Pantelia (Opponents: Sampo Perttula, Kenneth Jensen
13.25
Sampo Perttula (Opponents: Kenneth Jensen, Jani Jansson)
13.50
Vania Gaetti (Opponents: Jeremy Brault, Marika Bremer)
14.10
Edwin Strik (Opponents: Oded Stahl, Stella Pantelia)
14.35
Oded Stahl (Opponents: Vania Gaetti, Rene Lindsay)
15.00
Short evaluation of the course
15.15
End of seminar
I
know some of you can't be there all day, but I don't have a complete overview.
We
may have to swap some, e.g. Jani Jansson possibly have to leave at 11.45, so
maybe the discussion of his essay will have to come before Karen's.
I
have reserved 25 minutes for long essays, 20 minutes for middelsized essays and
15 minutes for short essays.( Of course the quality of the essay does not
necessaruloy have to do
with its length.).
The format for
the discussion could be the following:
- A short
introduction by the author (max. 5 minutes), about the theme of the essay and
the writing process
- A commentary by
a student opponent 1(about 5 minutes) - with added comments from opponent 2
(opponent 2 takes over the 5 minutes in case the opponent 1 is not there)
- A free
discussion, including comments from the teachers
We will look at
- The theme and
major ideas of the essay
- The way the
ideas are argued (the reasoning, the backing of the reasoning, etc.)
- The form of the
essay - how is it built up, literary technique, the illustrations, etc.
- If the writing
process could have been continued, what possible improvements or further
elaboration could we think about
Length
of essays and approximate time to read them.
|
Name: |
Characters |
Minutes |
|
Brian San |
3302 |
6 |
|
Sampo Perttula |
17318 |
30 |
|
Jeremy Brault |
9014 |
16 |
|
Jani Jansson |
19352 |
34 |
|
Karen Iversen |
7497 |
13 |
|
Kennet Jensen |
24307 |
42 |
|
Rene Lindsay (Lenz) |
10915 |
19 |
|
Marika Bremer |
23107 |
40 |
|
Stella Pantelia |
26736 |
47 |
|
Edwin Strik |
26405 |
46 |
|
Vania Gaetti |
7516 |
13 |
|
Oded Stahl (essay proper) |
26087 |
46 |
|
SUM |
201556 |
352 |
|
|
|
|
|
573 characters/minute |
|
|
|
Total reading time about 6 hours |
|
|
An
attempt to a short description of the essays:
Brian San:
Title:
Discussion with Jeremie Brault about creating space virtually
Topics:
architecture, virtuality, space, definitions, communication and understanding
Sampo
Perttula
Title: City
illusions - unknown city
Topics:
Landscape of images, commercial spaces, business districts, everyday spaces,
fake and genuine, dead city space and unknown city space.
Jeremie
Brault:
Title: The
meeting between King Pencil and Mouse Cursor
Topics:
Architecture, old and new ways of looking at and 'making' architecture,
virtuality and architecture
Jani
Jansson:
Title:
Virtual Places - discussion forums on the Internet
Topics:
Definitions of virtual and place, discussion forums, participants, personal
revelations in answering questions, speaking behaviour, the making of
identities, rethinking realities of identity, the question of social place
(rank) more than physical place.
Karin
Iversen:
Title:
Virtual Places - the biggest Masquerade of the 21st century ?
Topics:
History of virtuality, the body, the mind, virtual vs. face-to-face and body
'loss'
Kenneth
Jensen:
Title: The
architectural impact of the digital technology:
Topics:
Embedded technologies, new shapes (blob, topological, generic), new construction
possibilities, augmented and multi layered reality, own project in Islands
Brygge, dualities of a place, the computer as an analysing tool, parameter
architecture, dynamic force fields, complex geography
Rene
Lindsay (Lenz):
Title:
Spatial Representations in VR and computer games
Topics:
Wolfenstein, Myst, Doom, Counterstrike, Lev Manovich, Wipeout, Osmose - Char
Davies, things and space separated and inseparable, immersion, players and
avatars, narratives and navigation, spatial movement, shadows and reflections.....
Marika
Bremer:
Title: The
virtual garden
Topics:
history of the earthly paradise, landscape - nature - space of the garden, the
garden as multimedia, escapism and narrative, virtual elements in gardens,
gardens in virtual world, Aladdin's visit in the virtual world, it all takes
place in your head
Stella
Pantelia:
Title:
Communications, computer screens and virtual environments in the city of the
21st century
Topics: the
structure of the city, the public square, homes, public/private, streets /
agora, contemporary metropolises, the history of communications, cyberspace,
Science Fiction and development of reality, space/time gap, manga - Japanese
cartoons and new technology, the image of the city in the 21st century, virtual
vs. real, cyberspace as the future capital of the world, body and mind.
Edwin
Strik:
Title:
Virtual relationship?
Topics:
Virtual places, change of social patterns, living in the virtual world,
changing relations (primary, secondary, tertiary - Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft),
technology and basic human behaviour, urban consequences - homes and
cities, permanence and mobility,
the city and digital infrastructure, scale levels of the interfaces, virtual
and physical relations, mental change, communities of the future
Vania
Gaetti:
Title:
Virtual relationship
Topics:
people and the use of computers, psychology, chatting on the net, a mystical
experience, experiencing the virtual city, how to describe a city, memories,
virtual shops and virtual museums, the need of new content and virtual places
without bonds..
Oded Stahl:
Title:
Three questions about identity in the age of cyberspace
Topics:
active establishment of identity, the fear of anonymity (cloning, etc.), future
phobias and their background, virtual imitations of the physical world as lack
of imagination ?, how does means of interactions influence us in real life,
science fiction and contemporary fears, a new dynamic situation different from
a 100 years ago, identity in cyberspace, definitions of identity (duality of
difference/sameness), identity of choice, MUDs, the body, the interface, Char
Davies - Ephemere, the more primitive interface - the better?, multi identity,
modern times, modernism, futurism, Metropolis movie, Matrix movie, Science fiction as a study case,
avatars, rules of communication, the homepage as identity
Se you
Bo Gršnlund
this is
also on
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3-314list.htm
UPDATED May 1, 2003
Dear students
Now I have
received 12 essays (Brian San, Edwin Strik, Jani Jansson, Karin Iversen, Marika
Bremer, Oded Stahl, Rene Lindsay (Lenz), Kenneth Jensen, Vania Gaetti Jeremie
Brault, Sampo Perttula and Stella Pantelia). This is probably the number we are
going to look at Monday May 5.
Johan
Rooijackers, Troels S¿rensen and Virve VŠisŠnen have told me that because of
other work, they have had to drop the writing of the essay (you are welcome to
take part in the final seminar anyhow).
It's quite long
time since I had contacts to Klaus Dyhr, Mathias Gerhardt, Matthew Corrigan and
Vincent Sengel, so I don't know where you stand in relation to the writing of
the essay. You are still welcome too.
The 12 essays
have now been put on the net for you - I hope you can print them yourselves at
the school Friday May 2.
The
final seminar is planned for Monday, May 5 at 9.30-15.00 in the seminar room at
the back of the administration building (SkolerŒdssalen).
Here we will talk
about each essay and in the end also about the course as a whole. I think we
shall use 20-30 minutes for each essay, depending on the length of it and its
'complexity'. Helen Welling will come too.
To be able to
plan for Monday in detail, I would be happy to get an email from each of about:
1) will you
participate in the seminar on Monday a) all day, b) part of the day (if so,
tell when) ? - this question is for all - whether you have delivered an essay
or not
2) Is there one
of the other writers/essays that you especially want to be an 'opponent' of,
i.e. take responsibility to come with the first comments?
About reading: As
we now have many essays I will propose that you try to read at least essays a
day to overcome all the stuff before Monday. It is all together about 70 pages
or so, so it will take about 7 hours to read them. Take some notes wile you are
reading to remember what is important to discuss!
I also remind you
to bring the borrowed books back to me or to the library, if they belong there.
Best regards and
many thanks you for your contributions. Have a good time reading...
See you on Monday
Bo Gršnlund
mobile 40525181
This letter is also on
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3-314list.htm
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The essay links are below - NB! files over 2 MB take a
long time with modem - I have commented on the large ones!
Kenneth Jensen (Pdf 1,4 MB)
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/KJ_Essay.PDF
Marika Bremer (pdf 250 KB)
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/MB_virtual_garden.pdf
Karen Iversen:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/KI_virtual_places.htm
Brian San:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/BS_Discussion_with_Jeremy.htm
Jani Jansson:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/JJ_Place_in_virtual.htm
Vania Gaetti (hmtl 1,2 MB)
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/vania_gaetti.htm
Edwin Strik
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/Strik_Virtual_relationship.htm
Rene Lindsay (Lenz):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/Lenz_virtualplaces.htm
Oded Stahl (ppt is a Powerpoint file of 5 MB,
essay.htm is almost 10MB - the powerpoint file saved as htm but with some font
problems of 'overprinting', essay-no-pictures.htm is a small file though - the
file name tells why)
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/OSessay.ppt
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/OS_essay.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/OS_essey_no_picts.htm
Sampo Perttula
(The total document is 1,3 MB):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/SP_City_illusions.htm
JŽrŽmie Brault
(356 KB):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/JB_essay.htm
Stella Pantelia:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/SP_The
city.htm
UPDATED April 9,2003
Latest news. April 9:
The Essay Task and the Finishing of
the Course
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3-314_purpose_delivery.htm
The students essay themes:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/Student essay
themesv2.htm
Camilla
Frederiksen's lecture on essay writing, March 31 (pdf file):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/OnWritingEssays.pdf
Bo
Gršnlund's presentation, April 7 from The Economist on the Internet:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/Economist_digital_short.htm
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The chronological homepage (in reverse) of notes
from the course is:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3-314.htm (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED)
PLEASE SAVE THIS ADDRESS AS A FAVOURITE (or bookmark)
ON YOUR COMPUTER - and as a safeguard also write it down in your notebook.
The simple list of links (the one you are reading
now) is on:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3-314list.htm
Save this address as well!
You will need a computer with reasonably resent
versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the
documents for the course. Some documents may be in the WAFF format for Internet
Explorer. i.e. saved as web archives with pictures. These documents can not be
read with other internet browsers. If you lack these programs you can download
them for free from www.microsoft.com and www.adobe.com and install them on your
computer.
NB! the 'BACK' links inside some of the documents
below don't work, and most of the documents have no 'back' links (or takes you
further away) - TO GET BACK TO THIS LIST OF LINKS PRESS THE BACK ARROW BUTTON
IN THE BROWSER MENU BAR ABOVE THE DOCUMENT (the View>Button Bar shall be
turned on in Internet Explorer for the 'Back Arrow' to be seen). If the
document is a .pdf just close the document and you will see the browser window
underneath.
MOST IMPORTANT - YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO READ
EVERYTHING - CHOOSE!
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The program for the course 3.314 Virtual Places:
NB! There is a new program of 5 March
with revised session times on Mondays - now 11.00 - 15.00 (not to conflict with
Inger Bak's program at 15.00):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/3_314_2003IDv5.pdf
The original program can still be found
on:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_2003IDv3.pdf
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Some links concerning some other courses by Bo
Gršnlund:
The program for 3.312 Space is the Machine (deadline
sign-up 11 March):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_312_2003.pdf
Some 'after the facts' links for the
course 3.313 on 'Urbanity' in February (more will come later, as well as
bibliography and participation certificates):
http://bo.gronlund.homepage.dk/
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/BG_udstil_layout_400x200v3.pdf (large download 10 MB! - Exhibition in Danish)
The whole essay course 3.309 in January
2003 on architects' theories about the city - mostly in Danish and other
Scandinavian languages, but with some material in English - can be seen here in
reverse order:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3-309.htm
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3.314 VIRTUAL PLACES Continued .......
Material distributed as photocopies at the
session 10 March:
Tasks to be carried out at the session 10 March:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3.314March10quest.htm
Material distributed as photocopies at the session
5 March:
Tasks for Monday 10 March
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/3_314Tasks1.htm
Information form - to fill out
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/3_314_student_info_form.htm
BG's long bibliography
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/3_314bibliography_supl.htm
Neil Spiller (ed): Introduction to 'Cyber_Reader -
critical writing for the digital era', London, 2002 (14 pages - 7 sheets of
paper)
- will be mailed by 'snail mail' to the residences of
the students that have signed up for the course, but did not show up.
More on the book and the editor can be found at:
http://www.techtv.com/bigthinkers/features/story/0,23008,3377979,00.html
http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/architecture/news/spiller.htm
http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/architecture/people/mchale.htm
http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0714840718
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/people/people.htm
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/spiller.htm
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On what is an essay and the 'meaning' of the term
'virtual' etc.:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/essay_short_def.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/VirtualPlacesAHDictionary.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Virtual
Places Bookshelf.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Virtual
Places Britannica.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Infotech
dictionaries.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/FilosofileksikonVP.html
Texts and other material mentioned in relation to
specific days in the program:
On Bo Gršnlund's introduction March 5 (new paper March
9)
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314BGintroduction.htm
On Academic Writing 10 March (1 MB download!). http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Academic_Writing_K_U.pdf
The handouts in English on Academic
Writing are on page 126 through 172. Look especially at the following pages and
in this order :143; 165; 169; 167; 166; 154; 156; 157; 139; 136; 137; 135; 142;
159; 149; 148; 151;
On Bettina Lamm's lecture 24 March:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/vr_fiction.htm
One
of Bettina's links did not work - she has sent some extra on the 'Cave':
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Collection/Icc/CAVE/index.html
and
artists statement:
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Collection/Icc/CAVE/statement.html
A new article by
Bettina for the conference 'Digital Arts and Culture' in Australia this summer:
as word.doc for Microsoft word with Bettina's formatting and BG's .html
version, with less good formatting:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/Bettina_L_inner-worlds.doc
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/Bettina_L_inner-worlds.htm
Info on the
conference:
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/
On Nat Chards lecture 31 March:
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/architecture/frameset/ACSA/abstracts/chard.html
and the 'Cyborg Manifesto':
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
Donna Haraway - Cyborg Manifesto (another version)
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~alc8/cyborg.html
The essays from the Virtual Places course in 2001 are
at the Snap server at KA (the computer network at the school):
From a Mac choose Apple Menu > V¾lger (=Chooser)
Select Flatnet and F¾llesarkiv>Snap1
On the disk Share1 on Snap1 go to the folder:
3_314_Virtual_Places_last time
Here choose Virtual_places_overview_html (This is an internet explorer file -
can be opened from inside internet explorer also). Below the program you will find
the essays and comments to the.
Some generally interesting texts that Bo Gršnlund
mentioned 5 March:
Willam Mitchell, dean at school of architecture at
MIT, Cambridge, Mass.:
The City of Bits (from the mid 1990's - but still good
and basic (whole book - 600 KB!):
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Mitchell_City
of bits.html
Some concept 'pairs' in the City of Bits
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/City
of Bits Dualisms list.html
E-topia
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~y.yan/e_topia/about.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/e-topia_quotes.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/e-topia_3_chapters.html
Manuell Castells, prof. of sociology, UC Berleley:
http://hjem.get2net.dk/gronlund/3_314_Eng_v3_march2002.htm
- Castells_1968_1
http://hjem.get2net.dk/gronlund/Castells.html
http://www.thechronicle.demon.co.uk/archive/castells.htm
Paul Virilio, architect of a philosophical and
critical kind - quotes from 'The Information Bomb':
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Virilio_notes.html
Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems, the most talked about and
most scary article in the history of 'Wired'
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Bill_Joy_Qoutes.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Bill_Joy_Whole.html
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Bo Gršnlund's introductory overview on some basic issues of communication,
computing and the internet took the path trough the following documents (that are
too optimistic about the economic development, but technologically basically
correct):
http://hjem.get2net.dk/gronlund/Internet_och_OEP.html - a text in Swedish - just look at the
pictures and diagrams - one table is translated though :
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Senses
and bandwidth.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/BG_Technology_4_506.htm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/gilder.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Gilder_Telecosm.html
more on 'Telecosm' can be found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/Gilder_intro.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/LongBoom.html
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/New_Economy.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/kurzweil.html
Some further links to Wired, Mitchell, Castells, etc:
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/More
_links_Wired_etc.html
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BG's search recently at http://www.google.com/ advanced search for 'Virtual Places' in
'English' at the domains ending on .edu (Universities in USA) and .ac.uk
(Universities in the UK) gave i.e. the following interesting links:
On Virtual Places
http://intel.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2002/50/CyberspaceAsPlaceTPRC.pdf
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/arch239a/Resources/Virtual
Places.pdf
On Virtual Reality
http://people.ucsc.edu/~ekim/paper.html
On Planning Digital Places (this link may not work -
then try the next)
http://is.cgu.edu/citi/Publications/Digital_Places.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/DIGITAL_PLACES
(only for Internet Explorer)
On Democratic Structures in Cyberspace:
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/student-papers/fall98-papers/democracy/whitepaper.html
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The students internet links - found for March 10:
Tip
for other internet links - some of you have already sent me links (I have not
looked at them yet):
Sampo
Perttula:
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/arch239a/Resources/Virtual
Places.pdf
http://faculty.washington.edu/brj/presentations/acadia02/0.default.html
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~mary/Pubs/2000pdf/ACADIA2000.pdf
karen
iversen:
http://www.transparencynow.com/
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/cyberphi.htm
http://faculty.washington.edu/brj/Publications/ACADIA02.PDF
Pi
Kolbye
http://www.centrifuge.org/marcos/
http://www.vividvormgeving.nl/vormgeverpagina/spuybroek.htm
http://www.unstudio.com/html/proj_all.htm - under the topic "media" - smart apartment, living
tomorrow etc.
troels
sorensen:
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
Kenneth
Jensen:
http://www.vition.dk/newgrounds
Vania
Gaetti,
had
an interesting discussion with another student from the philosophy school in
Italy about virtual places, especially about art and virtual museum. so she
decided to choose these three sites that
she found quite interesting for this kind of problematic.
http://www.newitalianblood.com/virtualmuseum/index.html
http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/descrizioneE.html
http://www.jinjapan.org/museum/menu.html
Jani Jansson ,
found some links
she thinks are important in understanding what internet is all about. Also the
whole concept of virtual can be seen through these links, se says:
http://www.homokaasu.org/80zer/80ze.gas?URI=http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/spiller.htm
if you want to
know what this is all about, go to:
http://www.homokaasu.org/80zer/
The news are
usually boring, wanna-be objective and dull, go to:
and the last is
his favourite link:
http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
Anna Manosa:
http://dreamquest.to/VPUniverse.htm
http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/place/virtual.htm
Virve
VŠisŠnen:
this
is a very beautiful visual thesaurus:
http://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/index.jsp
communimage
is a collaborative art project since 1999.
Thousands
of people have since then contributed to a growing sea of images.
communimage
is an attempt to entertain a visual global dialogue.
http://www.communimage.ch/engl/
and
here's buckminster fullers dymaxion map:
http://lowcat.designstudio.hu/web2/fuller/
Chris:
I visited
this exhibition at the Bauhaus:
http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/kolleg.asp?p=dot
Klaus
Dyhr:
I
have a big interest in sounds as spatial generator, see these.....
http://www.swr2.de/audiohyperspace/engl_version/info/index.html
Johan
Rooijackers:
http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/~engeli/
Oded
Stahl:
Rasmus Groth:
On vitual
creatures - or in Danish:
Hvis
du besk¾ftiger dig med virtualitet, vil Karl Simms "evolved"
creatures mŒske
interessere
dig. Det drejer sig om "dyr" som selv l¾rer hensigstm¾ssig
adf¾rd
i deres virtuelle milj¿, iht. de pr¾misser de eksisterer under...
http://alife.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/alife/zooland/pub/research/ci/Alife/karl-sims/
Tryk
pΠ"Creatures demo"
Matthew Corrigan:
http://arch.hku.hk/~marcaurel/phd/PhDProposal1.html
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/research/student/VRArch/
RenŽ Lenz:
http://www.tate.org.uk/space/default.htm
(virtual museum, museum in space)
http://www.kollision.dk/parc/ (interface)
http://www.nycbloggers.com/ (community of bloggers)
http://www.lenz.dk/ - your guide to a life in
happiness
Maria Sole Bravo:
This is the home
page of William Gibson, who start talking and writing about the cyberspace
before the internet was invented.
http://www.filmdiva.com/mrd/gibson
Marika Bremer:
http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/
http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/7/issue7.html
http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/1/is1cara.html
and a
couple more which I saved for my self.
http://www.pantos.org/atw/35412.html
http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/05feature.html
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/vrwarriors57.php
vincent.sengel:
Two
commercial links:
http://fashion.dior.com/homme/index.html
More
than the real content, what is interesting in these website is the way
they
try to present it. The page is not like piece of paper with hyperlinks,
but
they tried to use the possibilities of internet and flash to display a
message
(even if this message is very thin in the end). This is virtual places
that
use the possibilities and limits of a computer like we use light, volumes
or
whatever in architecture (instead of trying to imitate a real space, two or
three
dimensional).
Naama
Lissar:
Hello, here are
some links I found while searching for virtual places+memory.
I'm trying to
find some information about human and computer systems of memory.
Memory is a
virtual place in the human mind...and architecture creates memories - creating a
physical expression of an abstract notion.
http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/computersvshumans.php
Stellee
PanTelia:
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/30days.htm
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html
But, from a
discussion about cyborgs and cyberspace I cannot exclude my
favourite anime (japanese cartoon movie), ghost in the shell:
http://www.manga.com/ghost/ghost.html
Jeremy
Broc:
http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dm2k-umdb/publish_db/books/va/index.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/dace/portfoli/thesis/
in french:
http://www.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/cdu/accueil/bibliographies/reverlaville/rever.htm
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Edwin
Strik:
Results
of brainstorm session
Examples
of interesting places in the real world and the important aspects when being
transferred to virtual places
Manmade
Cities
(in general)
Squares
--> often offer great diversity and vibrancy
GrŒbr¿dretorv
K¿benhavn: scale, proportion,peacefulness/intimacy
A
square is very bound to the local context, a result of
all the
other spaces.
Virtual
space can offer a complex social structure but it is often without a hierarchy.
Squares are meeting places and seem to have a lot in common with virtual
equivalents like chat rooms and also websites where individuals have the
opportunity to represent themselves.
Vertical
structures ˆ offer the unique possibility of physical elevation
SAS-hotel
top floor: panoramic view, Ôon top of the worldÕ.
Simultaneous experience of big-ness and tiny-ness, scale and
contrast.
Virtual
space can offer to a large number of people the view from Ôon top of the
worldÕ; but on the other hand is never capable of generating the unique
experience of feeling big & tiny simultaneously.
Not
manmade
Nature
As
a solitaire --> contains those features that can be closest
linked to
our biological senses. Weather, gravity, etc. in a
very
direct and often pure way.
Benn
Nevis mountain Scotland: peaceful, remote, cold, windy,
endless
panoramic views
Virtual
space can again give a visual impression of nature, however the combination of
all senses is so complete in a landscape, that the possibility of
representation in a virtual surrounding seems questionable.
Mediterranean
sea underwater: peacefull, new ways of
communicating based on trust, new way of experiencing weight
through all senses.
The
underwater experience seems highly unlikely to be represented in any other way
than visual to all senses due to its unique appearance in the real world.
Integrated
situations
Architecture
in a natural context
Louisiana:
combination of dramatic elements, romantic, surreal.
Although
virtual tours can probably be provided and quite a good impression can be given
of the complex in its direct surroundings; again the total concept of
experience is a sensation that demands being present on the given location.
Conclusion
It
seems that a manmade situation is a lot easier to be represented in virtual
space, due to the fact that these situations are more based on humans having
contact, than in the direct confrontation between a human and the natural
elements. Especially the representation of weather seems questionable as it
includes a combination of all senses and not just our visual relation with the
world. Future will have to show us if present day techniques as used in
flight/car simulators can also be used in other fields of representation.
summary
by Edwin Strik (brainstormgroup was about 7 persons)
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Some research tools
Libraries:
KASB
http://www.karch.dk/english/library/databaser/frame.html and
http://www.karch.dk/english/library/databaser/adgang_indefra.html
http://www.arkade.dk/ (only Danish interface)
Danish Public Libraries (click on English)
Danish Technical Knowledge Center (at DTU)
The Royal Danish Library
The British Library
The Library of Congress, USA (the worlds largest
library)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Bookshops:
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/283155/ref%3Dtab%5Fgw%5Fb%5F3/103-9164035-5001451
Under AA, London
http://www.trianglebookshop.com/
Urban Center Books, New York
http://www.urbancenterbooks.com/
The Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Virtual_Reality/
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Digital/Virtual_Reality/
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Architecture/
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Urban_and_Regional_Planning/
Search engines
http://www.kartoo.com/index.php3?langue=en
Encyklopedias
http://dir.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/
Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Architecture and Urbanism
http://www.cyburbia.org/index.html
http://www.architectstore.com/magazine.html
http://www.riba.org/library/rlinks.htm
http://store.yahoo.com/riba-links/
Dammel Dok - Futures2come:
http://www.dac.dk/
(demands Flash player and/or Shockwave plug in to be installed in the computer)
Two CD-ROMs from Gammeldok are at the Snap1 server at
KA's network (at the school only)
From a Mac choose Apple Menu > V¾lger (=Chooser)
Select Flatnet and F¾llesarkiv>Snap1
On the disk Share1 on Snap1 go to the folder:
3_314_Virtual_Places_last time
In this folder look for The folder F2C and run F2C_Mac
(a flash application), on a pc run F2C_pc.exe
In the folder SFOU on a mac run visyaliseringer, on a
pc run VISUALIS.EXE
Technical News:
CNET
ZDnet
http://zdnet.com.com/2001-11-0.html
Science Magazine
Scientific American
BBC World Click-on-line
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonline.asp?pageid=666
The geography of the internet:
http://www.MappingCyberspace.com/gallery/figure1_1.html
http://www.MappingCyberspace.com/gallery/figure4_3.html
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?p=Dest_W_t_40_L1
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/geographic.html
http://www.telegeography.com/
(see wall maps)
http://www.zooknic.com/Users/global_2001_08.html
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BG's latest news found:
World famous Jacob Nielsen tells about good website
design:
http://www.internet-magazine.com/features/jakob1.asp
New Internet speed record March 7, 2003 : 6,7 GB (= 2
full quality DVD-movies = four hours of movies in HDTV quality with surround
sound) sent from California to Amsterdam in 58 seconds. This speed of about
1000Mbps is about 100 times larger than the bandwidth of the human senses (compare N¿rretranders, mentioned
above):
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Mar/gee20030310019018.htm
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1046974975.html
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http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_314_Upload_05_03/