U Michigan’s North Quad Complex: A Media Cathedral
Low-tech but innovative table wedges. Six make a tight circle; more make an expanding donut.
The North Quad Residential Complex at the University of Michigan is the ideal place for a conference on Computers and Writing. I’ll do my part to fetishize the awesome people-focused technology in this place.
Low-tech but innovative table wedges. Six make a tight circle; more make an expanding donut.
A flatscreen computer monitor, next to an LED tickertape that runs up the wall.
Monitors hanging on walls make an instant gallery space, for student work or campus announcements.
Old-school whiteboards, a reconfigurable table, and a monitor. (This room also had street-level windows.)
The "Benedek Family Media Gateway" is an impressive illustration of ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous learning.
Everywhere, monitors streamed images from the conference -- slides uploaded by presenters, snapshots, Twitter streams, etc.
The lower level is a bit out of the way; more contemplative, but not isolated.
These monitors were everywhere.
Beneath each monitor, a panel of pluggy goodness.
Many of the monitors were labeled like paintings in a museum; this one had a 2d barcode.
Times Online:The slow death of the book may be with us. That was an incredibly painful sentence to write. Most bibliophiles balk at the merest hint that digital e-books could replace "real-books". But vinyl-lovers sneered at CDs. Those who lovingly categorised their CD collections were seduced, in turn, by the…
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