Having a peek (through video conferencing) into a room is not the same as being there, nor even as good as seeming to be “there” in a virtual environment. In a virtual environment, you see your own avatar, your other self, right there in that space. You are situated. You see and hear things from [...]

The viewer is the direct proxy for a human that wants to control an agent. This control can be direct as in the case of an interactive 3D viewer, or indirect as in the case of a web site that the user directs to display their agent’s status.
Second Life Grid Open Grid Protocol Draft 1
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HyperWerk ist kein Fachstudium, in dessen Verlauf ein Stoff
erlernt wird, um ihn an anderer Stelle nach Beendigung des
Studiums wieder anzuwenden. Ebenso, wie zum Beispiel nachhaltige
Entwicklung — sustainable development — nicht nur
an einem Fachgebiet erforscht und verstanden werden kann, so
ist auch der kreative Umgang mit neuen Fragestellungen in
einer
sich verändernden Welt nicht nur an einem Sachgebiet
abzuhandeln. Diese [...]

Hot desking originates from the definition of being the temporary physical occupation of a work station or surface by a particular employee
Hot desking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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creating a memorable, auratic and yet reproducible experience for consumers.
Design conversations, not products | Matter/Anti-Matter - A blog on product design and innovation from frog design - CNET Blogs
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Die Meister und Studierenden des 1919 in Weimar gegründeten Bauhauses wollten die Trennung von Kunst und Produktion aufheben durch eine Rückbesinnung auf handwerkliche Traditionen als Grundlage allen künstlerischen Schaffens. Sie wollten vorbildliche Gegenstände und Räume für eine künftige humanere Gesellschaft schaffen.
bauhaus dessau
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high speed mobile internet access works fine … probably not good enough for uploading large media files but sufficient to write blog posts … like this ((sitting in the center of Cham right now .. shady place .. little park)).new definition of urbanism?
Mobile Internet Access - new Urbanism? « zeitspur
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Fluidity is a central characteristic of this species.
For the person, time and space define reality. Reality for the avatar however, is purely of the mind, emotion, and imagination; each fueled by invisible threads made of electronic impulses moving across networks.
A single avatar takes many forms. It is the individual profile a person creates [...]

I believe the avatar is the nexus. While most are focused on the platform or the technology or the tool of social media or virtual environments, the avatar is the only true constant. Platforms, tools and technologies come and go. Avatars are Liquid Beings that move among them and who reside in [...]

She showed us how the artifacts from one world ported over to another through recreation of the old world in the new, transforming both the place and the narrative of the new, joined community. Her experiences highlight how a true community, once created, does not die easily – indeed another world often becomes the [...]