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Urban Environments and Interactive Technologies
Symposium
Friday, Sept 25, 1998
9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Bartos Theater
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Street
Agenda
| 9:00-9:30 |
Welcome and Introduction
William Mitchell, MIT |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Emerging Cultural Geographies of Cyberspace
Malcolm McCullough, Carnegie Mellon University
Distinguishing Among "Community," "Place," "Brandname,"
and "Business Ecology": A Spotcheck on Issues and
Overexposures in Digital Neighborhood Building
Thomas Campanella and Anne Beamish, MIT
Anti-Urbanism and the Image of the City in New Media Culture,
with Lessons from the Physical World for Digital Design |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Designing Interactive Virtual Worlds
Bruce Joffe, GIS Consultants, Inc.
SimCity: Myths and Folklore
Linda Stone, Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft's Virtual Worlds |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Audience Response - General Discussion |
| 12:30--2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00-4:00 |
Four Versions of the Digital City
Theresa Duncan, Rhinestone Publishing:
Zero Zero: Paris By Gaslight
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
StarNet: Digital Presentation of a Japanese Town --
Time, Space, and People
Glorianna Davenport, MIT
City: Time, Space and Story
Kurt Fendt and Ellen Crocker, MIT
"Berliner sehen":
Life stories in a changing city.
A hypermedia exploration of urban cultures. |
| 4:00-4:15 |
Break |
| 4:15-4:45 |
Reponse to the Demos: Audience Discussion |
| 4:45-5:30 |
Summing Up and Looking Ahead:
Panelists and Audience |
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Organizers:
Larry Vale
Henry Jenkins
David Thorburn
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