As my research has evolved over the summer, I have re-written my expression of interest to focus my ideas and concepts. An extract of this can be found below and if you would like to read on then download the full expression of interest here.
The purpose of ‘The Researchers Archive’ is to create a community platform through which individual narrative can be expressed in the transition towards digital technologies. The project will be realised through the creation of a tangible prototype and digital community to connect the research community of the School of Architecture, planning and Landscape, Newcastle University (SAPL) together.
“While static worlds are about objects and interactions, adaptive worlds are about flow and emergence” (ix)
The way we digest information is rapidly changing and is arguably more and more in flux as technologies like blogging and social networks allow information to be quickly and easily published, creating a more temporal nature towards the information around us. Advances in digital technologies have also brought a shift from ‘physical’ books to ‘digital’ books which has most recently been marked by Amazon who, on 1st April 2011 (xxi) sold more Kindle copies of books than ‘physical books’. Reacting to this shift in format, libraries such as the Robinson Library at Newcastle University are now offering more and more ‘e-services’ to the community…..
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