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Blend Space: Architectural Storytelling In The Age Of Mixed Reality, Grant Moehlenhoff
Blend Space: Architectural Storytelling In The Age Of Mixed Reality, Grant Moehlenhoff
Masters in Architecture Program: Theses
Storytelling and narratives have long been traditions for communication in human culture. Hieroglyphics, cave paintings, and stone tablets became the mediums in which this common method of communication began. The reasons why people tell stories are numerous, the most common ones being to entertain, to keep cultural heritage, to transfer knowledge, or provide warnings to others of danger. In addition, cultures often use architecture as a place to embed these narratives.
As technology has rapidly developed, so have the modes for telling stories. Today, stories are moving beyond the physical, and into both virtual and mixed realities. Virtual and augmented …
The Experience Condition: Experiencing Alternate Futures, Holly R. Craig
The Experience Condition: Experiencing Alternate Futures, Holly R. Craig
Masters in Architecture Program: Theses
A B S T R A C T I n t r o In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt states that the human capacity for new beginnings is marked by the launch of the first satellite into space in 1957. Arendt recognizes this as an ‘event, second in importance to no other, not even to the splitting of the atom’. The minatory threat of technological enterprises, the advent of automation, virtual and cosmic colonization, climatic changes, and todestrieb or ‘death drive,’ belong to a scope of events that impel new forms of experiences. (1)(2)(3) Narrative Architecture will be used …