[ dmg . publications . The 24 Hour Design Cycle: An Experiment in Design Collaboration Over the Internet ]

[ dmg . publications . The 24 Hour Design Cycle: An Experiment in Design Collaboration Over the Internet ] edit

published in 1999 in CAADRIA

This paper desribes a Virtual Design Studio exercise involving three academic institutions -- University of Hong Kong (China), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and University of Washington, Seattle (USA) -- whereby teachers and students, obviously on three different continents in three different time zones, roughly eight hours apart, were working on a common design project using computer-aided design systems, video-conferencing and a web-based central database that managed and displayed all works throughout the process. The 24 hour design cycle is a metaphor for a more open and international approach to design, facilitated through computer networks. It implies a new form of collective authorship and distributed credits and thus deals with some of the essential challenges and opportunities the internet poses to creative disciplines.

related projects: Virtual Design Studio

last updated 12.7.2001 by Ellen Yi-Luen Do