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Author(s) -
Gowland Will,
Lee Samantha
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2139
Subject(s) - studio , woodland , multidisciplinary approach , replica , tourism , computer science , visual arts , sociology , telecommunications , architectural engineering , geography , archaeology , engineering , art , ecology , social science , biology
The physical nature of current location‐tracked mobile culture can open up new sites to explore our relationship to place and question our cultural reliance upon it. Recent projects by London‐based multidisciplinary design studio UniversalAssemblyUnit playfully offer a shared‐ownership alternative to commercially driven centralised networks. The studio's cofounders Will Gowland and Samantha Lee here outline three such projects, involving a weather visualiser for Alaska, a laser communication network for Mexico City and a virtual replica of woodland for East Sussex.