Compte Rendu CRIWG 2003

Petite conférence (50-60 personnes) à dominance Sud-Americaine/Francaise traitant des systèmes collaboratifs (groupware et plateformes d'apprentissages).Les présentations n'ont pas amenées des innovations révolutionnaires tant au niveau des systèmes proposés que des concepts mis en avant. En ce qui...

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Space, Territorality and Hip Hop

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via oakland's urbanview "In rap music, geography is compulsively referenced. Jay Z is from Brooklyn; LL Cool J, Nas, and A Tribe Called Quest are from Queens; Snoop Dogg, Freestyle Fellowship, and Dilated Peoples are from Los Angeles. Too Short is from Oakland... (...) O...

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Paper ?

I was wondering about writing a paper about the very notion of PLACE in virtual environments. Few ideas about that : 1. Intro Rem Koolhas : "words that die in the real world are reborn in the virtual": webSITE, fireWALL, chatROOM... Spatial metaphor is often used... 2. What is a place 2.1 Definitio...

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CRIWG in Autrans

I am in Autrans (France) at the moment, attending a conference on groupware and collaboration. That's why this blog is so calm these days... ...

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Psychogeographical Markup Language

Via Social Fiction :"PML is a protocol that contains transferable & unified metadata about space recorded during psychogeograhical drifts. PML is the name of the data-structure behind the psychogeogram: the diagrammatic representation of both informational, physical & emotive aspects of urban space...

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Talk!

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Next monday, I will present my talk about Awareness Tools and Mutual Modelling at CRIWG. ...

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Space Syntax Methodology

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The space syntax methology is a mathematical/graph theory procedure intended to analyze nodal diagrams of plans to arrive at cultural norms behind the morphology of buildings. Maybe it would be interesting to use this technique for other purposes : studying space potenti...

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There is always a link with military shtuff

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE There is always a link with military shtuff !!!! Via Marc Tuters : "In Virilio"s military origins of the city, urban space is controlled by military cartographers, whose lines of sight have determined the extent of mapable, and thus, controllable territory. The further t...

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