CONTENTS
Fear of the Demo? Foreword by Antonino Saggio 5
1. Messages: Screens are Small - Ideas are Big 7
The Ephemeral Aspect of Digital Data 10
Behind the Screen 14
Passing Messages 15
2. Architecture: Rooms are Part of Life 19
The Seven Rooms 24
3. Let's Talk Visible 27
Graphicspeak 27
Tsunami of Data 30
Visible Language 32
The Visible Language Workshop - VLW 33
4. Images: Touching the Soul 39
Reading 39
Writing 42
Light 44
Animation 46
Construction 48
Deconstruction 49
5. Stories: Documentary, Poetry, Fiction, Comics, Film, Advertising 51
Communication 51
Knowledge 51
Genres: Documentary. Poetry. Fiction 54
Media: Comics, Film, Advertising 55
The Audience 59
Abstraction and Closure 60
6. Hyperdocument: Creating the Mesh 63
virtualhouse.ch 63
Hypertext 65
Links - Where do they lead to? 67
The New Reading and Writing
7. Information Spaces: New Spheres to Explore 75
Views 77
Activities 79
Attention and Enjoyment 80
8. Learning: Discoveries Beyond the Frontier 83
Learning has to be a Fun, Creative, Social and Cultural Activity 83
Architecture, Computers and Learning 85
Narratives, Networks and Architecture 87
Digital Environments for Learning 90
Bibliography 92