Architecture Studies

My interest in how people interact with their spaces is centered at the moment around library spaces. On May 18 on the ASL blog I posted a youtube video showing some experiments in that area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpFO_L_jA1c SOA student Matt Hagen added some interesting comments.

Lets go back to the topic!

A quick google search for "interactive spaces" turns up additional possibilities. The Interactive Spaces site http://www.interactivespaces.net/ reports on an innovative and temporary project called "Tagging the City" described as "a mobile blogging system based around 2D-barcodes." How can this be applied to libraries? Good question. All suggestions welcome!

Another site, The Irish Scientist, describes use of "ubiquitous computing" to enhance viewer interaction with a museum exhibit. http://www.irishscientist.ie/2004/contents.asp?contentxml=04p110a.xml&contentxsl=is04pages.xsl

Adding the term libraries to the search, you can see that many interactive spaces are aimed at public libraries and children's spaces. But look at this scholarly article titled "Interactional Digital Libraries" from the Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v02/i04/editorial/. The whole issue is on the topic of interaction in digital libraries.

Of course, high tech is not a requirement. Look at the white board tables as a contribution to interactive spaces! http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyprien/30812562/in/photostream/

We have two wonderful exhibits currently in the Architecture Studies Library: the School of Architecture Student Art Show and the American Institute of Architects Las Vegas chapter "Art of Architectural Photography" exhibit.

The student art show was the idea of student Anna Ball, and we thank her for pursuing this idea to its installation on the library's walls! We have received many positive comments on the work of the students. Thumbnails of the pieces can be seen at http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/events/sasfall2007/

The Art of Architectural Photography features work by AIA members.

Both shows will be up until the last week of October.

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