What I found most interesting about the Melbourne Exhibition was the wayfinding techniques used throughout. Rather than having an explicit path to guide visitors, the exhibition space was multidirectional. This encourages the public to make their own way around the… Continue Reading
Last Friday we went to the Public Records Office in North Melbourne. We were shown around the whole building, including the air-locked vaults underneath. It was extremely interesting learning about all of the records which are held there. From… Continue Reading
ZOOM0003 Here is one of the audio recordings I took in Storey Hall. While on previous visits the building had been empty and silent, this time there were a few more people inside and I noticed the way in which… Continue Reading
As I am researching augmented space for brief #2, I found a lot of examples of apps which present an augmented reality for users. The most interesting one that I found is an Android game called Ingress. Ingress uses the real world… Continue Reading
In his introduction to ‘Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography’, Malpas explores the dichotomous relationship between human beings and the spaces in which they inhabit. The dichotomy exists in the influence each entity has on the other. While humans change… Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking a lot about how space can become place after reading Cresswell’s “Place: An Introduction”. It’s particularly relevant to me at the moment as I’m moving into a new house in five days with my partner and another… Continue Reading
I have chosen to investigate Storey Hall (building 16). Up until the first week of my final year at RMIT, I had never once entered the building. Upon first entering, I immediately felt unnerved, due both to the strange architectural… Continue Reading
In my opinion, David Lynch is a master of creating unnerving atmospheric space through both his cinematography and sound. I am always surprised at how he is able to make me feel uncomfortable without actually showing anything necessarily “scary” (in the typical… Continue Reading
Tim Creswell addresses a number of issues relating to augmented place in this introduction. Specifically, he outlines ways in which geographic data is business; how companies retain information from geographic information systems (GIS). This particularly interested me as I have… Continue Reading