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Posted on 2015/11/11 by

Embodied Space: The Webster Library Transformation

The Webster Library Transformation is underway and in the University’s postings about the work being done, the word ‘renovation’ is conspicuously absent possibly because it carries connotations of disrepair, age and maintenance of an old system. Maybe that’s also why it’s being touted as a “next-generation” library, which makes a kind of avowal of the Read More

Posted on 2014/10/06 by

selfiecity: data visualization, design, narrrative

Lev Manovich contrasts database and narrative as opposing cultural forms. Their difference lies partly in their fundamentally different ways of ordering and accessing information. The database stores individual, interchangeable records of information, each of equivalent significance that can be accessed randomly in any order. Narrative demands some form of sequential semantic ordering. A database can Read More