Internet Studio 2000:
(August – December 2000)

Florida International University (FIU), MIAMI, USA
U de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
U Central de Venezuela
U Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
U Nacional de Santa Fe, Argentina
U Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

Fourth Year Undergraduate Studio

SUBJECT (IN DISCUSSION):
Program:  A public complex in front of a prominent water property (probably a 20,000 sq mt. mix project of community center, library, and media or museum center).

MAIN PAGE:
To be developed in Miami with access to every body.

SCHEDULE:
FIU: 23 August - December 2, 2000

UBA: 7 August - Mid November
UCV: October - ?

 

TIME:
UBA: M & TH mornings (Argentina)
FIU: M & TH 2 PM a 5 PM (EST, Miami).

STUDENT PROJECTS:
Each student place their page in school server or in a free server such as tripod.com (recommended with 50 MB), prohosting.com, or xoom.com

COMUNICACIÓN:
SeeUcme, Vocaltec, Neetmeting (videoconf via Internet).
Videoconferencias PictureTel ISDN si es posible.
Chat y Bulletin boards and WebCT administered from Miami.
Web Pages e E-Mail



 

Internet Studio 1999:
(August – December 1999)

Florida International University, Miami
U. Universidad de Artes Ciencias y Comunicacion, Chile

4th Year Undergraduate Studio

http://members.tripod.com/wwwandia/D7/

STUDIO SUBJECT
The theme of this studio was the design of 12 Piers located in the East River between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge in New York. Each Student will be in charge of the design of one of
those piers.
The program for these 12 Piers is envisioned as a mayor Expo/Museum of the world.  The idea is that each one of the Piers hosts a number of countries from a specific continent.
The project is destined to become the main hub for the world that converges in Manhattan whereby
visitors can enjoy exhibits, information, interaction, culture, food, vistas, and themed entertainment of
different regions of the globe.  Students will be assigned one Pier-Continent, and will develop the
program and the design in conjunction with jurors and reviewers from Chile, NY, Germany, and other
parts of the world.

STUDIO MAIN PAGE
This studio will be conducted in a mode of teaching design called the “Virtual Design Studio” (VDS).   In
simple words a VDS is a studio that connects remote participants using digital communication
technologies.  VDS Studios explores the asynchronous and synchronous techniques in design
collaboration, in which different participants and large groups of reviewers from around the world can participate.  The Studio main page cotains all the information and schedule students at both universities share.
http://members.tripod.com/wwwandia/D7/

SCHEDULES
FIU develops this VDS Studio in conjunction with the Design 7 studio at Universidad UNIACC, Chile.  FIU studio shares during the whole Fall semester the same studio subject, schedule, assignments and reviews.    Students are assigned to discussion groups that by using the different collaboration technologies will evaluate their design and programmatic issues.
Structured and unstructured videoconferences are developed at the same time:
http://members.tripod.com/wwwandia/D7/videovocal1.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/wwwandia/D7/Video1.html

EXAMPLES OF STUDENTS PROJECTS
Students' main page is standard and it simulate a virtual pin-up
http://members.tripod.com/wwwdunnr/
http://members.tripod.com/~s-jorge/
http://www.uniweb.cl/sven.eckert/index_flash.html
http://members.tripod.com/ari_g/
http://www.uniweb.cl/fernando.baldissoni/
http://members.tripod.com/rosai/index.html

Examples of final pages:
http://members.tripod.com/wwwdunnr/FINAL.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~s-jorge/final_menu.html

GRADES
To incentivate participation on the Internet 70 % of  grade is given by the local professor and 30 % is given by the virtual professor.

RELATIONS AMONG PROFESSORS
Every Wednesday professors at UNIACC and FIU left their Vocaltec IP videoconference open for non-structured discussions all day.  At the beginning or at the end of the day professors discussed assignments and work.

JURY
Jury from all over the world was able to see and comment individual projects.
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FULL LIST OF PREVIOUS INTERNET STUDIOS:

2000.  "Proposal for Internet Studio 2000".
1999.  "Manhattan Piers". FIU, Miami – U. UNIACC, Chile.
1999.  "Visions of Urban Housing".  FIU, Miami - OMNI Neighb. Association - Downtown Development Authority.
1998.  "Urban Projects". Miamisburg, Ohio.  City of Miamisburg - ISA Cuba - U. of Cincinnati.
1998.  Villa Panamericana, Havana, Cuba.  U. Cincinnati - ISA, Cuba - CUJAE, Cuba.
1998.  "Information Kiosks" .  U of British Columbia, Canada – U. UNIACC, Chile.
1987.  Workshop: “City, Design and Internet”,  Massa Marittima, Tuscany, Italy.
1996.  Workshop: “City, Design and Internet”,  Copparo, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
1994.  Internet Studio: UC. Berkeley, California – Taisei Co., Tokyo, Japan