Corridor Conversations
Members of the i.e. team are interested in exploring areas of new technology including social networking, but also the relationship between physical and virtual spaces. In this ongoing project series, the i.e. team are establishing links between corridors in different parts of the world. The intent is to explore communication environments within a theoretical frame, but also as a way of better understanding new technologies and the way in which information is conveyed through social networking practices. Professor Teal Triggs, Nicolas Marechal, and MA Design Writing Criticism students found themselves in a virtual corridor conversation with University of Texas at Austin design graduate students and tutors Riley Triggs, Dan Olsen, and Peter Hall. This initial meeting was set up to 'test' the approach of using Skype technology and is taken with MRes Information Environments students.
Team workshops
An important part of what we do is to provide spaces where researchers come together to share with the team their own 'research in progress'. This is an opportunity for learning about individual researchers interests, but also in sharing and exploring potential synergies.
Maxime Vers (with James Thompson) — an undergraduate student at Camberwell College of Arts — was invited to present his work on virtual spaces to i.e. members.
Staff from Cranfield University and i.e. come together during a research workshop exchanging knowledge about their respective disciplines: Phil Baines, typography and Professor Rajkumar Roy, Decision Engineering
This workshop explored what we meant by 'information environments'. i.e. member, Dr Ben Jonson presented a paper on The Manifesto in Art & Design — a historical overview, which prompted a series of discussions on the i.e. unit. Members were then asked to generate i.e. manifestos as a way of funding a shared understanding of 'information environments.'
