Metaverse Language

definitions of strange terms I use on Metaverse Territory sites

1. Metaverse Territories » Blog Archive » Metaverse Architecture 7.11.06 / 1pm

   [...] I teach in an architecture school, a studio course, developing real architecture projects with students, whose primary goal is to let critical lessons concerning what it means to “make architecture,” emerge. This studio has a strong emphasis on the invention of intelligent space that is respective of an expressive medium, its local and global context and constructive techniques (technologies). Beginning in the fall semester 2006, I plan to bring +/- 25 students from my studio into Second Life (SL) to participate in making architecture simultaneously in the real, material world and in a virtual one. [...]
2. Metaverse Territories » Blog Archive » Metaverse Lessons 7.12.06 / 8am

   [...] The built environment, whether in real life (RL) or in Second Life (SL), has a context. Cities, suburbs, geography, nature, even atmosphere are the substance of this context. For an architectural project, in this case, one whose intention is primarily pedagogic, the student comes to understand this context through analysis, so as to intelligently decide whether to either : [...]
3. Metaverse Territories » Blog Archive » Building in SL, the Polemic 7.14.06 / 10am

   [...] Using a semantic system of historical or RL reference also forces a misreading of the very idea of those references. In the example of the Norman house, the building techniques that were being expressed by the organization of brick and wood cross beams, the unique social and economic situations that inspired the creative or utilitarian forces of a Norman house, its society, culture and the individuals that fabricated it, are perverted. We end up just building more suburbs, with their MacMansions. In short, the idea of context, that which precedes an edifice, is non-existent in this semantic, post-post-modern formula. [...]
4. Metaverse Territories » Blog Archive » Building in a Metaverse: Manifest, pt.1 7.17.06 / 10am

   [...] The local qualities can be understood as the build’s context, and; [...]
5. AVAIR » Blog Archive » Project notes> Instruments of precision 1.18.07 / 5pm

   [...] the potentialities inherent to a specific physical and material context. In a virtual world, local context is defined by its geometric, physical and temporal structures that, by definition, determine that [...]
6. Metaverse Territories » Building in a Metaverse: Manifest, pt.1 7.24.07 / 8am

   [...] local qualities can be understood as the build’s context –the geological, topological, textural and proximate characteristics that directly influence [...]
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