In City of Bits William Mitchell writes about different types of virtual spaces and how they draw on real spaces. But what models do we have for hybrid spaces – institutions that are designed to have both physical and virtual extension? How do we think through what we can make if we were to design a new research learning space both for information technology and through it?<\/p>\n
In chapter 4.6. Schoolhouses \/ Virtual Campuses<\/a> Mitchell draws on Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia. Jefferson’s “academical village” was designed to bring students and faculty together in a place of residence and learning. What do we want to bring together in a new media village? 1. The buildings are surfaces that show and hide. The surfaces are screens and should therefore be programmable like the Kunsthaus Graz<\/a> museum which has computer driven surface panels on the outside. Read about it at Art in America: Austria’s friendly alien.<\/a><\/p>\n 2. Surfaces define spaces for activities. They shouldn’t exclude. Imagine something that is open for peeking in. A learning space that anyone can look into – every studio has a web cam. (Panoptic dystopia?)<\/p>\n 3. Space away from technology – quiet rooms without wireless.<\/p>\n 4. Walk and talk spaces – courts with boards to stop and write on. <\/p>\n Here are references on the academical village: From City of Bits<\/em> by William Mitchell see School Houses\/Virtual Campuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the home page of the online version<\/a> of the book.<\/p>\n Also see a project at MIT combining studio and academical village<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In City of Bits William Mitchell writes about different types of virtual spaces and how they draw on real spaces. But what models do we have for hybrid spaces – institutions that are designed to have both physical and virtual extension? How do we think through what we can make if we were to design … Continue reading Academical Village<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nHere are some random thoughts on the subject:<\/p>\n
\nTwo sites from the University of Virginia on the academical village
\n http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/academicalvillage\/<\/a>, and http:\/\/etext.Virginia.EDU\/jefferson\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n