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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

J. Hoog:
"Real Virtualities-Architecture 2.0";
Talk: eCAADe Conference (Education in CAAD in Europe), Antwerp (invited); 09-17-2008 - 09-19-2008; in: "eCAADe 26 - Architecture 'in computro'", eCAADe and Artesis University College of Antwerp, 1st Edition, Antwerp (2008), ISBN: 9780954118372; 817 - 822.



English abstract:
The Institute of Architecture and Design, TU Vienna has bought a virtual island in Second Life (SL) in order to use it in a design course (5 ECTS). The goal was to introduce students to new ways in which computers in a web based network like SL can be used to generate designs by using end user scripting within a virtual 3D environment. After a short introduction into the basics of SL and to the rules and conditions of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEīs) the students worked within that kind of spatial software as a place and as hyper media. The main focus of this paper is to stress and to describe the differences of the studentīs results compared to common architectural design courses.

Keywords:
Algorithmic architecture; Second Life; virtual space design; learning platform

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