Open AccessExploring informed virtual sites through Michel Foucault's heterotopias
Author(s) -
Francis Rousseaux,
Indira Thouvenin
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
hal (le centre pour la communication scientifique directe)
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.3366/e1753854810000595
Subject(s) - michel foucault , heterotopia (medicine) , psychoanalysis , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , political science , medicine , law , pathology , politics
International audienceThis papers starts with some mysterious contribution by Michel Foucault (1967) about heterotopias as special epistemological sites. With a recent case-study — an immersive virtual reality art project dealing with some ancient abbey reconstruction and managed by a French engineering school — we analyse the successive attempts to satisfy the system users by extending Foucault's heterotopology, which appears to be useful and creative for the Virtual Reality research communities