Spaces, Spatiality and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. An Introduction to Spaces, Spatiality and Technology

   • Phil Turner, Elisabeth Davenport

   Pages 1-4

3. The Digital Uncanny

   • Richard Coyne

   Pages 5-18

4. En-Spacing Technology

   • Barry Brown, Eric Laurier

   Pages 19-30

5. Shifting Presence in the Classroom

   • Elisabeth Davenport, Kathy Buckner

   Pages 31-44

6. The Public Library

   • A. Goulding

   Pages 45-66

7. Understanding Spatiality

   • Lorna Mcdougal

   Pages 67-78

8. Public Place as a Resource of Social Interaction

   • Matthias Buchecker

   Pages 79-96

9. Privacy Zoning

   • Machiel J. Van Dorst

   Pages 97-116

10. High-Fidelity Mapping of Intellectual Space

    • Blaise Cronin

    Pages 117-128

11. Escape from Surface and Linearity

    • Julian Warner

    Pages 129-138

12. “Surface”: Material Infrastructure for Space

    • Ronald E. Day

    Pages 139-150

13. Multiple Spaces

    • Alan Dix, Adrian Friday, Boriana Koleva, Tom Rodden, Henk Muller, Cliff Randell et al.

    Pages 151-172

14. An Existential Approach to Representing Visual Context

    • A. J. Summerfield, S. Hayman

    Pages 173-190

15. Performative Uses of Space in Mixed Media Environments

    • Giulio Jacucci, Ina Wagner

    Pages 191-216

16. Space, Place and the Design of Technologically-Enhanced Physical Environments

    • Luigina Ciolfi, Liam J. Bannon

    Pages 217-232

17. Augmenting Communal Office Spaces with Large Screens to Support Informal Communication

    • Sara Albolino, Antonietta Grasso, Frederic Roulland

    Pages 233-248

18. Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform

    • Michael Smyth

    Pages 249-260

19. Multiscale Space and Place

    • Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, George W. Furnas

    Pages 261-280

20. The Tourist Gaze: Towards Contextualised Virtual Environments

    • Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Fiona Carroll

    Pages 281-297

separated by the exigencies of the design life cycle into another compartment, that makes invisible the (prior) technical work of engineers that is not directly pertinent to the application work of practitioners. More recently (and notably after the work of Greisemer and Star) the black box has been opened and infrastructure has been discussed in terms of the social relations of an extended group of actors that includes developers. Ethical and political issues are involved (cf f accountable computing). Writing broadly within this context, Day (chapter 11) proposes that the concept of 'surface' can assist us to explore space as the product of 'power and the affective and expressive role for materials', rather than the background to this. Surfaces are the 'variously textured…sites for mixtures between bodies', and are thus the 'sites for events'. The notions of 'folding' and 'foldability' and 'unfolding' are discussed at length, as metaphors that account for the interactions of bodies in space across time. Some of the contributors to this volume focus on ways in which we may experience multiple infrastructures. Dix and his colleagues, for example, in chapter 12 explore a complex of models - of spatial context, of 'mixed reality boundaries' and of human spatial understanding across a number of field projects that make up the Equator project to explain the ways in which co-existing multiple spaces are experienced.

• communication
• nature
• privacy
• technology
• virtual environment

• Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

  Phil Turner, Elisabeth Davenport

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