Architecture: History, Theory & Practice

project: Pliny: A note manager

The Pliny project aims to promote some thinking that looks broadly at the provision of tools to support scholarship. One of its products is a piece of free software, also called Pliny, which facilitates note-taking and annotation, allowing its user to integrate these initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal interpretation. [read more]

project: arts-humanities.net

arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. [read more]
Host institution: 
Glasgow School of Art
Director: 
Paul Anderson

The Digital Design Studio (DDS) is a postgraduate research and commercial centre of Glasgow School of Art. Its intense learning and research environment exploits the interface between science, technology and the arts to explore imaginative and novel uses of advanced 3D digital visualisation and interaction technologies. Research activity at the DDS is underpinned by one and two year masters degrees and a growing PhD community. The DDS is dedicated to developing ways in which people can engage and interact with data and emerging digital visualisation systems.

Services provided: 

Ultra hi-res laser scanning
3D modelling, simulation, and visualisation
Programming
Hi-def photography (including stereo photography)
3D virtual environments, design and interaction
Graphical interface development
Motion capture
Haptic programming
Animation
3D sound design
Sound post-production and dubbing

Membership: 
Network of Expert Centres
Website: 
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/dds
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project: DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

Supporting and enhancing digitially enabled research. The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices across the arts and humanities, acting as a trusted intermediary between disciplines and domains. [read more]

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