UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Event fields: designing a virtual space

Papadopoulos, D.; (2006) Event fields: designing a virtual space. Masters thesis , UCL (University College London). Green open access

[thumbnail of 2881.pdf]
Preview
PDF
2881.pdf

Download (2MB)

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)
Title: Event fields: designing a virtual space
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
UCL classification:
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2881
Downloads since deposit
1,782Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item