Site Object Experience: Designing Material

Media Spaces

Shannon Mattern The New School wordsinspace.net

Safe Haven Orphanage Library Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand, 2009

Photos: Pasi Aalto, via ArchDaily.com

Barthes on the New Citroën via Mannamaker

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via Venturi Scott Brown & Associates 3  

via EWEB Riverfront MasterPlan 4  

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Via Cervin Robinson & Artek

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Via ScienceBlogs

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Via OMA

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Via OMA

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Via OMA

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•  Communication in design •  Design as communication •  Design of communication

technologies •  Design for media formats and modes

of communication

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Via Qualitative-Research.net 23  

Louis Kahn Via Wikimedia

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Photos by the author

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Via Artek

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Neutelings Riedijk Architects Via NYTimes

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Top: Via RPG Associates, Cervin Robinson; Bottom: Photos by the Author 28  

Flushing Library, Queens; Photo by the Author

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Via OMA; New York Times

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Via Esto; Studios Architecture

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SPL: Via Typophile, Environmeant, Photo by Author; Graphics by Bruce Mau; Wood Floor by Ann Hamilton

BVPL: Via Ten Arquitectos

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Via Tarek Atrissi

Via Paul Baran, “On Distributed Communications: Memo: RM-3420-PR,” August 1964, the Rand Corporation; Debord

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House of Representatives, Investigations as to Pneumatic Tube Service for the Mails (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909).

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Western Union Collection, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution

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“A city...is not a flattenable graph. In a city, networks overlap upon other networks” (Friedrich Kittler, “The City is a Medium,” New

Literary History 27:4 (1996): 719)

Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan Timeformations, 2000

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...looking simultaneously at communication in design, design as communication, and design for communication, can help us appreciate the mutual construction of material sites for, objects for, and experiences of communication.  

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Via Atrek

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Via Cervin Robinson

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Via Christina Davis

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Via Christina Davis

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1.  Studying media representations 2.  The study of how media images, texts, and

data flow across space and, in so doing, reconfigure social space

3.  The study of the specific spaces at either end of the media process, the space of consumption and the space of production

4.  The study of the scale-effects, or complex entanglements of scale, which result from the operation of media in space

5.  Studying how media-caused entanglements of scale are variously experienced and understood in particular places

 

Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan Timeformations, 2000

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Site Object

Experience

Safe Haven Orphanage Library Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand,

2009 Photos: Pasi Aalto, via

ArchDaily.com