Mediating Place at the time of the Pandemic

Mediating Place at the time of the Pandemic: Workshop at Mcgill University, Architecture Departement

Life under the COVID quarantine has spotlighted an age-old challenge of representation – mediating remote presence, communicating the conditions of a place, and allowing others to experience through design. The workshop ‘Mediating Place’ is designed to open a discussion on the ways of communicating places out of reach using a transmedia approach to storytelling in architectural research.
The first session (Feb. 23, 9AM-12 EST) will reveal several concepts relating to mediating places: mediation, narration, and presence. This will follow a number of tutorials on combining mapping and immersive documentation, with emphasis on online tools using available and open-source software.
The second session (Feb. 25, 9AM-12 EST) will continue the discussion on spatial-narration and introduce VR design using Unity Game Engine. Using Unity the participant will gain the confidence to explore further the vast possibilities of VR in the context of mediation of places for architectural design research.

http://mtrlclass.xyz/mediatingsite/
Instructor: Eytan Mann, MTRL PhD Candidate
Special thanks to the Azrieli Foundation for its generous support.
‘Mediating Place’ is part of the Azrieli Global Studio program powered by McGill University and Technion IIT.
23/25 Feb. 2021