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08/02/2004 Archived Entry: "WiFi Architecture"

Fascinating notes from William Mitchell's DIS 2004 keynote on what can best be called wifi architecture. This is the kind of stuff I love to harp about: how does technology alter the apparatus?
Some parts that stand out:

New types of learning spaces not only incorporate new hardware and systems they also create new patterns of social and intellectual interaction,

The entire campus becomes an interactive learning device

and

totally against standard ideology of modernism (i.e. separating and optimising functions)

and from here:

Dynamic of teaching and learning changing, especially seminars - any reference is instantly Googled and the results thrust back into the conversation... very high-speed investigation. Changes style of teaching - no superior command by the teacher (some have banned it)

We too often forget the ways spaces are created by the communicative apparatus - yeah yeah McLuhan stuff again. But McLuhan and Ennis were onto this stuff in the '50s and '60s. And we still see the university structured around a logic (ideologically and physically) that is being taken over by mixology, new media, the remix, cool, and many other so called "new" methods upon us today.