The Immersive Ammanuensis
Joy Evelyn Wilson
Architectural Association
A meaningful utterance is made through the characteristic model
The future immersive archive of the AA must grant users the power over a persistent virtual identity through which they can accumulate and write content. This model builds on the sampled interactions of identity, impression, communications, content, time and location management. The ledger of individual exploration and institutional participation that manifests are utilized by the individual as a means of demonstrating subject matter expertise and utilized by the institution to synchronously associate context with content.
Mapping the meaningful utterance into the greater conversation of the AA
The contribution must now go through a process of negotiation where it will be scrutinized for its credibility and relevance regarding the greater discourse that the institution has established for itself. This tool for navigating present discourse that allows for peer production and authorship within the archive will give rise to a renewed enthusiasm for the politics of establishing collective vision. Decentralizing the model of archiving to a distributed group of participating individuals within an institution allows for profound moments of exchange, no matter how seemingly small to be considered through peer review to transcend the limitations of their perceived obscurity. Through an archive that persistently writes these ledgers it allows for content with renewed relevance to resurface and make connections through space and time.
Spawning the archive through active distribution
By disaggregating the functions of sifting, accreditation, and distribution of content the institutional archive will no longer beckon us in through the formal process of information seeking but explode into existence all around us. Through the provision of sampled channels within the archive agents can at once transmit content internally and externally to the institution while receiving content that links to a demonstrated interest. These agents at the edge of the public, whether content or user, become passageways for new members of the public through the permeability they can provide to the defined boundary. As individual characteristic models grow, and collective interests are expressed as the identity of the institution as a group the archive gives each member of its public a new relational awareness to the material and semiotic networks of which they are everyday agents.
On the following link you can find a video that covers the full extent of the author studio project from last year called 'The Immersive Amanuensis' which is a mixed reality archive for the AA. It expands on all the concepts covered in the posters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yUotLqjXs&feature=youtu.be
