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Intelligent Environments - Spatial Aspects of the Information
Revolution
Peter Droege
Director, Urban Design Program, Faculty of Architecture, The University
of Sydney GO4 (AUS)
The slide presentation characterises the architecture of a paradigm:
the implications of information and telecommunications technological changes
for the shape of the physical environment.
It focuses particularly on the past twenty years, looking at a pervasive
phenomenon, expressed in ways of looking at, representing and describing
cities and architecture, packaging urban development, and endowing centuries-old
dreams of empowerment and emancipation with neo-humanist, techno-charged
meaning.
The sections of the talk are:
(1) Postwar Mediatectures - mass-media inspired paradigm shifts;
(2) Technological Change - some blunt observations;
(3) Information Cities - a brief highlight of some typical info-inspired
urban development projects;
(4) Campus City - description of a Japanese project of far-reaching
implications;
(5) The Agenda Unfolds - a more in-depth discussion of the "information
city" phenomenon;
(6) Intelligent Environments - highlights of a new publication on the
matter, published by Elsevier North-Holland;
(7) Campus - an attempt to create a virtual university utilising an
urban paradigm; and a brief concluding discussion of some
(8) Implications for research, teaching and the discipline at large.
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