Friday, September 08, 2006

9.8

Contact was made again today. We’ve been reserving the conference room in the library every time we’ve had a meeting. It is a quiet, secluded room with a large table for everyone to gather around, so it’s been working well. We are continuing our design proposals for the “communication station.” There was a new obstacle to overcome today, one of our group members is in Boston for the weekend. We conducted an experiment and it worked out pretty well. In order to hear the professor she called us and listened in, so we had people communicating with each other from Colorado to South Carolina to Massachusetts. In our meeting we brought scale models into the room to show the professor via web cam. It felt much different than a typical critique in the sense that the professor wasn’t physically here holding and analyzing our models. In order for the professor to get a good idea of what the models looked like we had to move them close to the camera. However, the entire meeting went well because we used multiple forms of communication. While we were video chatting, the professor was reviewing our blogs. Prior to the conference we had updated them with sketches, photographs, and renderings of our revised designs. The virtual studio is becoming a believable option to the traditional studio with time, hopefully everything continues to work smoothly as the semester continues.

1 comment:

rael said...

hey, that's reallly great to know that you are broadening the use of the communication equipment. i also like the updated photos of the studio.