Papadopoulos, D.;
(2006)
Event fields: designing a virtual space.
Masters thesis , UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This paper detects the gap that exists between theory and practice in the design process of virtual spaces and investigates the possibility to design a virtual online space without interpreting the word virtual as the fake representation of the real. A different approach of the meaning of virtual is used, based on the works of contemporary philosophers, in order to understand the way information technology has altered the way we perceive reality. Several cases of existing virtual worlds, along with messenger engines, have been studied in order to extract conclusions for the most common design techniques used. As a result a test space has been constructed and called Event_Fields. A main conclusion of this research was that in order to participate in the shaping of a reality, the designers involved should be in complete understanding of their tools, therefore of the interface of the design process. The name Event Fields was inspired by the title of the book “Being and Event” by Alain Badiou, the French mathematician and philosopher whose work on the virtual has provided the most inspiring phrase about perceiving multiplicities: “What is not a being is not a being” (Badiou, 2005) 1. The word “fields” express the ambition of including the studied notions in a complete entity with a perceivable nature, while the title predisposes the emergence of unexpected events in a virtual world.
Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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Title: | Event fields: designing a virtual space |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Language: | English |
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URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2881 |
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