STRUCTURE:

At each level/module of the structure of this Panopticon, each 'cell' acts as a gateway to another 'place' where work can be done. Each layer of the building houses a module.

 

Access to the modules is provided through the 'Core' which runs up through the centre of the 'building'. Here participants can register for a particular module, and have access to that layer of the building. The various sections or zones available within each layer include: Library, Archive, Social MUD (all three run across levels/modules), RTC, Participants Spaces, FTP, Gallery, News, One to One Tutorial Space, and a MUSE Presentation Space. Each zone has the architecture of a historical 'dream' building (e.g., Barrels Hall ,'The Adoration of the Magi', The Monument to the III International, Port Eliot, etc) to underpin contextual practice.

The first module/level developed here, "Virtual Environments", incorporates the following places..

CORE: Central reservations

ARCHIVE/ADMIN: Monument to the III International

GALLERY: Big white cube

FTP: Port Eliot House

LIBRARY: Borges: The Library of Babel

STUDENT SPACE: Saint Jerome in His Study, Antonello da Messina.

NEWS: Every Town, The Shape of Things to Come. H. G. Wells, Korda and Nagy.

SOCIAL SPACE: Barrels Hall / student made

4D CONVERSATION: Babel

PRESESNTATION SPACE: Adoration of the Magi

ONE TO ONE: Enigma of a Day / Nostalgia of the Infinite