Toward a Model for Surveying On-Line Dwelling. The Virtual City as a Cultural Asset

摘要

How to design and realise a process for understanding on-line dwelling, from the point of view of architecture and design? In both research and teaching the theme of surveying the "architecture of cyberspace" - from virtual worlds to conceptual maps - generates numerous problems. They appear to derive, first and foremost, from a lack of shared models for understanding the characteristics that give form to on-line spatialities. This is true above all in regards to the observation and discretization of aesthetic and thematic-functional processes of classification. It would thus appear opportune to refine our capacity to read and decipher forms, expressions, languages, information and knowledge. We must also pursue semantic connections, implement processes of thematic filtering, apply juxtapositions and study the conceptual and visual references that nurture creativity in the digital realm.