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Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion
Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29982 Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion White, G.T. (Gary) lila.kruger@gmail.com Laubscher, Jacques Kruger, Leanne Information age Digital divide Digital architecture Virtual reality UCTD Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011. This dissertation focuses on architecture in the information age.Information technology is evolving at an alarming rate, which opens up a vast landscape of possibilities within the architectural realm. These possibilities are discussed and implemented into anarchitectural intervention, with a specific focus on the relationship between the real and the virtual. A digital art pavilion is proposed on the corner of Proes and van der Walt streets in Pretoria CBD, where the Munitoria Complex (Tshwane Municipal Offices) is currently situated. This intervention should act as a catalyst for positive change by narrowing the digital divide that is currently causing social and cultural segregation; providing a tool for upliftment by informing city dwellers. This negates the current "culture of ignorance" by stimulating a culture of knowledge. Architecture unrestricted 2013-09-07T17:27:30Z 2012-06-26 2013-09-07T17:27:30Z 2012-04-23 2011 2011-11-30 Dissertation Kruger, L 2011, Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29982 > C12/4/85/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29982 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11302011-184515/ en © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Information age Digital divide Digital architecture Virtual reality UCTD Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| title | Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| title_full | Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| title_fullStr | Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| title_short | Metapolis : virtual reality vs. real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| title_sort | metapolis virtual reality vs real virtuality in a digital art pavillion |
| topic | Information age Digital divide Digital architecture Virtual reality UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29982 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11302011-184515/ |