Index

Table of Contents

Preface|ix

Introduction
Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche|1

The Frame Context
Ulrich Gehmann|21

CHAPTER 1. THE BEGINNINGS

The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene
Sabine Wilke|47

Thomas Jefferson’s University: An Architectural Masque
David Bell|63

The Building of a Symbolic Image
Randolph Langenbach|91

CHAPTER 2. THE UNFOLDINGS

The World as Grid
Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche|121

Gotham City
Martin Cremers|141

Good Night, Zoo
Irus Braverman|159

CHAPTER 3. VIRTUALIZATION GAINS MOMENTUM
A Paradise of Decorated Sheds
Steffen Krämer|179

The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat
Chris Gerbing|193

The Community Question
Manfred Negele|217

Real Virtuality
Gerd Stern|231

The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space
Katerina Diamantaki|243

The Destruction of Space by Augmentation
Martin Reiche|273

CHAPTER 4. FACETS OF ACCELERATION
IN HYBRID SPACES

Mixed Reality
Panagiotis D. Ritsos|283

Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction
Carl Smith and Pierre-Francois Gerard|311

Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds
Mikhail Fominykh|337

Identity in Virtual Worlds
Lyzgeo M. Koshy, Kristoffer Getchell, Marc Conrad and Tim French|369

Beyond the Visible Autonomy
Erhan Öze|383

CHAPTER 5. BEYOND ACCELERATION
“Unheimlich”: The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts
Martin Rieser|405

Against the Self-Evident
Michael Johansson and KristofferÅberg|419

Explorable Spaces
Martin Reiche and Ulrich Gehmann|443

List of Contributors|453