The relationship of humans to architectural space has been affected by the intervention of digital technologies and digital space.
Architecture of the 21st Century must react to a new complex set of relationships between humans and physical architecture. The interface to people to digital devices and the digital realm has changed the reeds of architecture. Our cities and buildings must respond to digital technology which defies geographical boundaries, personal privacy, and physical capacity.
Taking notes from innovations and trends within the digital technology industry, architecture should make the same shift towards user accessibility, flexibility, personalization, efficiency, simplicity, quality, compactness, and performance. We must recognize the out datedness of historical architectural typologies when responding to a new media. Education and the workplace have the most opportunities to change because physical conditions can change when public buildings are no longer designed for groups of people but for the individual. Digital space is architecture without the body. In the digital realm the user has free agency to arrange information and to control their own experience. Architecture has the responsibility to be responsive to users, allow for user controls, to begin responding to the needs of a database culture.
Hi Drew,
ReplyDeleteThere was an article in the nytimes about a test study on digital learning, actually conducted at CMU.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/technology/11online.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=digital%20school&st=cse
There are also a lot of other articles listed on their site about technology and schools. I hope this helps!