explanation
architecture
project:
Collaboration Stations
architects:
Tamara Lackner & Brian K. Smith
Imagine that you could walk into an ordinary
school classroom, throw out all of the furniture and pedagogical assumptions,
and construct a completely new environment. One goal for our group is to
think about what the implications of such a move would be, and what should
replace the current architectural and pedagogical infrastructures. In keeping
with our focus on explanation, we believe that the classroom should become
transformed into a collaborative performance space, where students are
responsible for articulating theories about complex phenomena. The projects
listed below are all components of an overall attempt to redefine the architecture
of schooling.
We are developing video environments that
facilitate active annotation and collaboration. Digital video is projected
onto table surfaces, and students can annotate the films with whiteboard
pens. In this way, writing is linked to video clips and can be stored and
shared with others in the classroom. Touch-screen technologies are used
to eliminate the mouse, allowing students to directly grab and move video
objects. This project seeks to integrate paper and computational artifacts
while allowing students to develop behavioral models from image and video
libraries.
