Discursive formations – Place, Narrative and Digitality in the Museum of the Future

Call for participation and collaboration

We would like to invite you participate in the “Discursive Formations – Place, Narrative and Digitality in the Museum of the Future” pilot project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK). This is a collaboration between several institutions within the University of Cambridge: the Digital Studio of the Department of Architecture, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Computer Laboratory.

The pilot project consists primarily of three interconnected workshops that will address the relationship between digitality and the Museum of the Future with an emphasis on the role of the moving image. The project aims to provoke interdisciplinary exchange, generate new design ideas and serve as a catalyst for future collaborations.

We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce http://moodle.expressivespace.org as a space for collaboration in practice-based research. “Discursive Formations” is the first project hosted by this new resource.

Project themes:

• ubiquitous computing; tangible interfaces
• pervasive, online, embodied narrative; expressive space
• real-time environments; video and pervasive games
• ephemeral, generative and adaptive architecture

Applicants are welcome to extend this list.

Important dates:

• Workshop application deadline: 1 March 2007
• Workshop acceptance deadline: 9 March 2007
• Workshop I: 16 March 2007
• Workshop II: 19 – 21 March 2007
• Workshop III: 21 – 23 March 2007
• Plenary session I: 21 March 2007 (pm)
• Plenary session II: 14 May 2007 (pm)

For details, see the link below.

Link: http://moodle.expressivespace.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2#2