2000/09/09

Virtual Environments - Merging of New Science and Web Design

Author: Diogo Terroso
Degree: Master of Arts - Communication Design (Multimedia)
University: Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design - University of the Arts London

Abstract: In the last decades we have continuously seen critical designers incorporating sign-theory, structuralism, post-modernism and deconstruction into design practicability, we are now witnessing the emergence of the politics of science. Current investigations and research of the new sciences are based on complexity and dynamic living systems. How then does it relate to design? In what extend can we apply such knowledge to unfold conceptual, structural and philosophical principles for the development of online virtual environments. The framework is what possible relation, can we establish between new science and the Internet.

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