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August 02, 2004
DIS2004: William Mitchell
Start of conference mode - at DIS 2004. Notes as and when...
Rethinking Campus Design
William J Mitchell
$1 billion dollar construction campaign
HCI meets architecture
and
HCI meets urban design
Forms of learning spaces changing as architects take advantage of ICT
Lectures have become like Etech - everyone staring at laptops rather than taking notes, using the web and IM (passing notes in class)
Wants a utility to be able to take anyone's screen and project it
Classroom is a setting to create a community to have a shared learning experience
Dynamic of teaching and learning changing, especially seminars - any reference is instantly Googled and the results thrust back into the conversation... very high-speed investigation. Changes style of teaching - no superior command by the teacher (some have banned it)
(pic of design studio)
Studio space goes against stand architecture practise - separate forms and functions
Happens due to wireless connectivity and portable devices, allowing appropriation of space as you need
Cafe space doubles as work space
Extraordinarily efficient - less demand for specialised work spaces
Increase in demand for informal nomadic space
Earlier they wired up the dorm rooms - exacerbated the geek factor, encouraged anti-social pattern of behaviour (cave dwellers)
Increased roommate conflicts
Portable + wireless means work happens in semi-public places, still visible but quiet enough to do work
Ad-hoc problem solving groups form, random coincidental encounters
Designing spaces explicitly for these new patterns. Classrooms with circular tables (atelier model moved into physics and other very formal teaching)
Students can grab experimental apparatus and bring it to their table. Group hands-on joint working on problems, both physically and electronic.
Teachers act as coaches and encouragers
Traditional campus design - design around people, and books, to encourage physical interaction (Jefferson example)
Bosworth and MIT - again, iconic library, central green space, collonaded wings (in MIT, around workspace rather than residential - commuter campus)
newer projects - Simmons Hall (freshman dormitory). Goal is to intensify on-campus life. Metaphor is permeability. Freeform sponge pattern meshed with that of a formal grid.
Emphasis with all buildings - natural ventilation and light, operable windows. Possible with better control systems, but also portable devices allow usage in any lighting condition, and any temperature
Ray & Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences (Gehry) - 700,000 sq ft. Giant geometric cad model [therefore this could be used with photo-analysis to find out your exact location]
Media Lab - Fumihiko Maki
Public spaces at the top (restaurants, lecture halls), drag people up the building, showing people the work of the people in the building (like a shopping anchor at the opposite end to the car park)
Lab space is double height, with offices on mezzanine level.
"wasted space" may become the most important
Computer-supported social interaction becoming increasingly important
Varied spaces rather than modular repetition - growing feasability with cad/cam technology
Paradox of good technology - more technologically advanced a space is, the less high-tech it looks. Technology disappears into your pocket, disappears into the woodwork. Smaller, more robust, more graceful, more powerful. Use tech to get into basic human needs - light, air, sociability, view.
(Mitchell has the DVD of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms on his computer)
[how does the move towards fundamentally small screens (laptops) change software use, and the designs, output and work that is done alter?]
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I'm away for a few days at Designing Interactive Systems 2004, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. First batch of collaborative notes that Matt Jones and I just made around Bill Mitchell's keynote is up at Matt's site. It was a good
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