[ dmg . publications . The 24 Hour Design Cycle: An Experiment in Design Collaboration Over the Internet ] edit
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.
last updated 12.7.2001 by Ellen Yi-Luen Do
