Invisible Architectures : DIGF501
Module leader: Mike Phillips
mikep@soc.plym.ac.uk

Archi-typal Places.

Ghosts and other places.

Panopticon Spaces.

 

The Mythical Place: A short history of 'other places'.

Psychometric Architecture:

Ghosts in the Machine for Living.

This was a hypothetical model attached to a lottery proposal that described Plymouths Arts and Architecture Centre. The lottery proposal continues but the project itself tries to engage with the application of new media technologies to a public space. A more thorough explanation can be found here...

 

... images of events (talking, walking, consuming, watching, interactingÉ) taking place in the building throughout the day are processed and replayed throughout the night, through the structures windows, externalising the internal organs of the place (the activates that bring life to the structure. Gazing through the windows at night triggers the traces, an inverted PanopticonÉ a buildings memory, a psychometric narrative...

 

A shockwave (its qwuite large 840k) adapted from the origianal simulation for this project can be found here.