Here's my proposal for the ML branding assignment:

http://glop.media.mit.edu/bloom

I'll upload the PDF soon too, but it was on my machine that crashed.

--done, keynote file

A proposal for the E14 facade performance.

Keynote: Media Flow.

http://eco.media.mit.edu/spatial-uploads/jeff-wayshowing-proposal.mov (80+mb) Click to advance slides.

http://eco.media.mit.edu/spatial-uploads/jeff-wayshowing-proposal.pdf (pdf, no movies)

[revised by agnes]
Hi all,

There are three readings for class discussion tomorrow, all posted in the syllabus. It might seem like a lot, but they are all pretty easy reads so you can read quickly and catch what interests you.

1. Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values in Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan
: 20 pages, with a few diagrams, but should be a relatively fast read. He discusses how spatial divisions and values originate from the human body, and how space and experience of spaciousness affects how we perceive more abstract things like competence or freedom.

2. Selections from A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander

I began by trying to design an interface which started like Google Maps, but similarly to the Nolli map of Rome, it 'zoomed in' to show all public spaces, even interior ones. Then, on a per-person basis, it could show even private spaces, down to the scale of a single office, desk, or even computer desktop. The interface would have an awareness of what kind of device it was being viewed on - a public kiosk, or a private smartphone, and would show information accordingly.

I then thought of using a public bulletin board more effectively by time multiplexing it so that messages could be targeted at specific groups of people, or related in real time to events. Messages might be conditional on certain data; an author might specify that it should only show if a group of people is there, or only if a single person is there.

Click here to download the .3ds file. We will try to post this in a few other formats as well.

I found three examples of good spatial information design: the Panopticon (Benthams and more specifically Presidio Modelo in Cuba ), robotic warehouses, and PARKINFORMATION, the parking proposal by Natalie Jeremijenko. For poor spatial information design I chose The World, a collection of islands off the coast of Dubai, which I will compare with the Million Dollar Homepage.

PDF here »