Understanding the role of Digital media systems in Spaces

by Arthi kanchana manohar

Dance floor, New York– ‘www.feedtank.com’

Urban carpet, London

Mood wall , Amsterdamby Studio Klink and Urban Alliance - David Carlson, 19 February, 2009

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Research Question:

What is the role of current digital media practices in creating culturally responsive environments in urban transit spaces?

Sub Questions:

How to understand the relationship between the culturally responsive environments and digital media systems?

How to identify the role of current digital media practices in creating culturally responsive environments in urban transit places?

How to develop a methodological approach to integrate cultural responsiveness in the development of digital technologies?

Aim of the research:

The proposal aims to identify the role of current digital media practices in creating culturally responsive environments especially in urban transit places of developing countries context.

Objectives of the research:

To develop literature study for understanding the relationship between the culturally responsive environments and the current implications of digital media systems in urban transit spaces.

To develop a methodological approach to investigate the role of current digital media practices in creating culturally responsive environments in urban transit places.

To evaluate the developed methodology in different cultural contexts taking the case study approach as the primary investigation tool.

To analyse the findings of the primary study by using compare and combined analysis of different case studies.

To inform the design practice on how to integrate the cultural contexts in the assimilation of digital systems for creating culturally responsive environments.

Methodology:

Methods used in Master’s dissertation will be developed further to investigate the primary aim of the research.

Experiment conducted with mirrors in which the arbitrary lights projections shows up as a dynamic pattern due to the reflections caused by the mirror.

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Understanding the role of Digital media systems in Culturally interactive and responsive Urban Transit Spaces

Case study

Qualitative analysis

Experiment Semi-structured interviews.

Questionnaire

Findings from analysis Conclusion

Evaluating research methods

Literature study

Conceptual study

Literature study

Case study

Conceptual study

Qualitative analysis

Experiments

Semi structured interviews

Findings from the analysis

Conclusion

Report

Evaluating

research method

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