(Conceptual Strain -)- Continuously Amending the SDL Objectives

Thoughts On Digital Laurie Grove Baths

MA Interactive Media
Learning Activity: Research the Laurie Grove Baths

11.Nov.2007

Digitality...

- The information used to dynamically represent physical objects in the digital system together with this nature of representation leads to a gradual transformation of the object in which the changes of its shape, theme, sources, (keywords) and even content are consistent.
- In most of the cases users get to/access digital objects through search. This is a process in which the digital objects are given vague definitions/descriptions using few (key)words or differently put, these keywords expose/unhide these objects from digital thicket.

Laurie Grove Baths as a Digital Object

- In the physical world a building can be experienced (empirical defined/described) through the ways is being visited (inside, outside, walking paths, refurbishing work etc). But no matter how close and old the relationship with a building is, there is always something unknown about it, something which slips away from being (completely) known.
By contrast, a digitally represented object is, by its nature, totally exposed and easily experienced (the open-source realm is to be mostly considered here).
- This could serve as a pretext for an endeavour to represent Laurie Grove building as a digital object of which its inherent transformations mentioned above are accelerated so that it can prevent its visitor from know it thoroughly.

(MA-IM DataJam) Implementation

- As noticed in most of ma-im students intentions, the digital 'skeleton' of Digital Laurie Grove is going to be a database comprising of a handful of tables.
One knows that database is an organisational structure meant to hold information and to make it available for (optimised) access.
- One of the ways in which this digital building can be developed is to make use of this storage mechanism to actually conceal (some of the) information by continuously changing its structure(shape), sources and content. And is the actual process of searching/accessing the object (through keywords) which can trigger such changes.

- While user enjoys the 'fruits' of her/his keywords visiting the parts of the object revealed by the search action, these parts can change in real-time: the same keywords can be used to fetch different information from the same or different sources.
- The structures of the tables can also be altered 'on the fly' so that the object will offer a new experience next time when it is visited.
The initial database can have some of its tables dropped off or other created anew.

Obviously, some examples are to be discussed.