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Digital Media and its Application in Cultural Heritage
Digital Media and its Application in Cultural Heritage (2008)
  • William Batson
Abstract
Architecture has always concerned itself with a sensible innovative logical design. We live in a powerful international age where architects, designers, and city planners use a similar form of digital hardware and software to create the design. In this collectively similar process, are we creating more innovative, safe, sustainable communities? Are we improving our workspace or moving toward quietly deteriorating and temporary ones? Have we ignored our cultural heritage or precedents in the rush to learn the latest digital software? Can we commodity the necessary cultural and regional devices in order to build effectively in the 21st century?
Digital media has become a permanent part of the architectural design culture. We now have e the ability to design, calculate and mass produce our environment in an instant. Do we utilize this new technology solely to enhance our skill in the design realm or does this new technology promise to serve a more significant practice, i.e., to enhance our ongoing study of user needs, regional architecture, or cultural expression?
This paper will propose how digital media can move beyond its tactile use as an operational software to commodify educational, graphical, and visual information that enhances learning and cognition and expand all aspects of design that benefit from the new digital media technology.
Keywords
  • Digital media,
  • regional cultural heritage,
  • archetype,
  • genus loci
Publication Date
2008
Citation Information
William Batson. "Digital Media and its Application in Cultural Heritage" Digital Media and its Application in Cultural Heritage (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/william-batson/7/
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