Digital versions of cityscape

Prequisites:
  • Practice of cd-rom navigation
Objectives:
  • To make the students familiar with the characteristics of hypermedia programmes on landscapes and cityscapes and their navigational models.  
Description:
  • An in-depth study of cd-roms on historic cities, focusing on the interface as well as on the documentary contents.

Questions
THE CD-ROM ON GEORGIAN CITIES
Navigation both in the topographical and in the thematic sections of the cd-rom authored by the research centre CATI

 

  • Essential concepts concerning hypermedia

The interpretation of cd-roms rests on the theory of 'hypermedia'. It was developed particularly in the 1990s.

Simulation and problematisation: How do they interact? see questions

Among the theorists were Ray McAleese, George Landow, Marilyn Deegan.They developed the idea of metaphor applied to hypermedia.

  • Navigation in the cd-rom

Students of hypermedia have itemised the constituents of interfaces
CD-ROMS ON CITIES
 

 

 
  • Cities and labyrinths

A study of the relation between myths and images of the city: the myth of the city as labyrinth was formed from a variety of sources - literature, history, pictures... and images created in the various media

  • Labyrinthine cities and the new media

How do the new media compare with earlier ones in their evocation of cities?

    • does the navigation correspond to the labyrinth (macrostructure)?
    • how does the interface emphasise it?

    a typology of visual effects

 
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