Diversion and Recreation in Architectural Media: rethinking the role of distractive media in the built environment
Pope, Jordan
Student projects
Interactive architecture
Interactive art
Multimedia works
Student drawings
Our habituation to life in a nearly constant mode of distraction may be an inevitable outcome of media proliferation, but these new media may be reworked to facilitate a process that is more desirably interactive than invasive. As of yet, these issues have concerned interactive artists more often than architects and the more permanent architectural works in this vein have typically found superficial applications in advertising and ‘lobby architecture,’ functioning as merely ‘responsive’ rather than truly ‘interactive’ environments.As such, this study explores the potential for architectural media to take on a capacity for input and engage in public conversation as interactive Canvases/Games/Mirrors while asking: why, unlike other forms of media removed from any spatial context, have environmental media resisted the compulsion to become more democratic in the Late Information Age?
School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008)
Bell, David. Faculty advisor
Oatman, Michael. Faculty advisor
Saunders, Andrew. Faculty advisor
2008-05
Electronic thesis: Bachelor of Architecture 5th year final project
Digital
English
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