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 is one of 21 research clusters set up in 2005 by the Designing for the 21 Century Initiative (D4C21) funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The cluster is based at the University of Leeds (UK) where it brings together a number of research teams spanning the disciplines across the arts and the sciences around the common theme of space. Here is some introductory information about the Cluster, its people, and their aspirations. edit WelcomeNote |
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edit NoticeBoard (last modified on April 25, 2006, at 02:15 PM)
Dec 7, 2005: Proposal for the SiD Website
This website is a wiki. It is now available to you very much in the collaborative spirit of this research cluster. Of course, these are the website's earliest days and nearly everything about it is (at best) slightly wrong, unfinished, or simply non-existent. Only, from now on, there will be no designated 'designer' to complain to (nor to be overly grateful to), for if you are unhappy with the state of anything at all, just change it: edit, add new pages, even upload images and other media — all this without ever leaving the browser window you are looking at! In fact, there are too many potential benefits of this system for a complex research environment such as this to list in a mere NoticeBoard alert. Suffice it to say that, on the back of such examples as Wikipedia and Ward's Wiki, there seams to be no limit to the complexity that a wiki like this can generate and support (and, to all involved, nearly effortlessly too). While mapping the space of spatiality is itself one of the key aspirations of the Cluster, this wiki will silently be mapping your contributions in turn...
Of course, the value of this collaborative tool for the drawing of the spatiality map is just one of the intriguing research prospects. As the Cluster members evolve new ways of using it, there is no telling as to what other understanding can emerge out of the ensuing cloud of forever provisional relations.
This wiki is a PmWiki installation. Here is some information on the philosophy and maintenance of wikis in general and this wiki in particular:
- What is the WikiWikiWeb?
- Basic Editing describes how to create pages in this wiki.
- Practice editing pages in the WikiSandbox.
- PmWiki documentation is available at PmWiki.DocumentationIndex.
Important — PmWiki has built-in support for password-protecting various areas of the wiki site. In fact, you can use PmWiki to add passwords to individual pages and WikiGroups as described in Passwords! In the first instance, however, and until Spatiality in Design figures out how to manage security issues, you will need to obtain a password relative to your involvement in the Cluster directly from one of the Cluster leaders... (Milos)
Dec 2, 2005: Proposal for the Logo
The logo pictures the sprouting of modern notions of spatiality from the Cartesian intellectual ancestry... It is inspired by the now famous words of Benoit Mandelbrot which open his Fractal Geometry of Nature:
(Milos)
