With a critical eye toward the trends and advancements of the past twenty years, we began by projecting into the future. Aided by the writings of Katherine Hayles and Bruce Sterling, we began to image a context within which the dean’s office would be situated in the year 2029. As the effects of the digital […]
Context: Architecture Department at RPI Project: DEAN-DEN/LIB-REF-DESK Final deadline: September 22, 24 For our Thesis Section hand-shake project, students will propose a new facility for the programs of either or both the “Dean’s Office” and/or the “Librarian’s Desk”, in 2029. Students will assume a particular set of exchanges on one or both of these programs, […]
Mouse Tracking Course + Spatial Sequence Communication Breakdown mindscapeCOLLECTIVE a DEMOCRATIC means of EDUCATION and INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION MINDSCAPE :: a mental or psychological scene or area of the imagination COLLECTIVE :: denoting a number of persons or things considered as one group or whole; of, relating to, or being a group of individuals; involving all […]
This project uses the Dean Den to establish a dialogue between the External Institutional CLOUD archive (consisting of the information and histories of institutions outside of the RPI ARCH department) and the ARCH internal archive. The goal is to create a system that increases collaboration and the spread of information throughout the RPI Architecture building and across institutions and disciplines. The […]