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Advances in technology have allowed us to work, learn, and play beyond the confinement of the walls around our rooms. Although these technologies have revolutionized our modes of communication, they do not need to uproot our physical connections with our neighborhoods. Space to Place is an exploration that attempts to remedy the concerns of placelessness and dislocation associated with the arrival of the information age. Embracing the cutting edge of communication and information dissemination, this project seeks technological means to enhance the sense of community and history in our physical environments. Ultimately, Space to Place prophesizes a future where our physical world becomes a seamless tapestry that is layered with a virtual dimension, bustling with entertainment, communications, commercial and educational activities.
Three propositions have been conceived, as ways to align our life in the cyberspace back into the physical world: Pictopia, Space to Place 2002 and Complex Meida Display
Pictopia:
Pictopia is a data storage and retrieval system that uses the city grids as an infrastructure. Instead of resorting to familiar but arbitrary metaphors such as "folders" and "trash bins", Pictopia literally constructs a mental image of the city out of your digital files.
Space to Place 2002:
This is an experiential/informational piece that investigates how our intuitions developed in the physical world are carried over into the cyberspace.
Complex Media Environment:
This is a multi-channel platform for collaborative medium, built for School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. This project bridges the divide between architecture, interior design, and information design.
Our projects range from architecture, interior design, to downloadable desktop shareware.
Matters of Time:
An elegant desktop calendar and wallpaper solution that features a day planer integrated with images from the exotic Far East. Watch the hustle and bustle of Asia shuffling away on the desktop, or display your own wallpaper images. Unlike other wallpaper applications on the web, Matters of Time creates an visually pleasing desktop environment, in which the wallpaper is seemlessly integrated with the core functions and essential information on your screen. This application is created by an artiste educated at both Carnegie Mellon University, and Parsons School of Design.
Demos, images, and text are © 2003-2007 by W. Yang. All rights reserved.