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Vertical Studio 01/09
Course Number:    4203 Architectural Design V + AR 5203 Architectural Design VII

Project: Bangkok Futurelab: Media Art + Technology Center
The first part will start with the brief introduction of an emerging field of experimental interaction design, new media art, society, and architecture by studying, analyzing, and designing Bangkok Futurelab: Media Art + Technology Center.

Bangkok Futurelab: Media Art + Technology Center provides a context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Bangkok Futurelab challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. Bangkok Futurelab has constantly focused on the future emerging in the present.

Keywords: Interactive Architecture, Immersive Environment, Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, New Media Art, Real/Virtual Mixed Reality, Global Web Culture, Surveillance system, Open Source + Free Culture.

click the following link  for the course outline in pdf format studio4i_2009