http://www.philvanallen.com/news/designing-behavior/ interactive designer, educator, photographer Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.philvanallen.com/news/designing-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Ewan Branda Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:48:24 +0000 http://www.philvanallen.com/?p=23#comment-76 This is a great point and one I've been looking into in the field of architectural design as it intersected IT in the early days of postwar information culture (see, for example, http://www.modernarchitecture.net/project-archive/engineering-beaubourgs-information-spaces). In some ways the discipline of architectural programming overlaps substantially with what you describe here: a focus on behavior, action, event, and temporality, and their abstraction into a metalanguage enabling communication between designers and clients. This is a great point and one I’ve been looking into in the field of architectural design as it intersected IT in the early days of postwar information culture (see, for example, http://www.modernarchitecture.net/project-archive/engineering-beaubourgs-information-spaces). In some ways the discipline of architectural programming overlaps substantially with what you describe here: a focus on behavior, action, event, and temporality, and their abstraction into a metalanguage enabling communication between designers and clients.

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