Situation Room - Couverture souple

HACKITECTURA.NET

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8461415043 ISBN 13 : 9788461415045

Editeur : Dpr-Barcelona, 2011

Synopsis

The term Situation Room is normally used to designate a secret place used in times of crisis to assess and monitor data for decision making purposes. Its origins can be traced back to World War II with the invention of computers, digitalization, and the collaboration of architects and the military. These rooms are equipped with monitors and data boards used to control everything from flows crossing the strait of Gibraltar to nuclear fission processes in Nuclear Power plants and the life support mechanisms on board the International Space Station.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A new iconography to identify power came into being in the 1950s. Darkened rooms sealed off to the outside world, full of screens showing all kinds of data, inhabited by analysts who filtered and interpreted the incoming stream of information in real time. A huge map of the world full of blinking lights almost always dominated the scene. These were the new control rooms or situation rooms. Situation Room, the project by Pablo de Soto and hackitectura.net, set up a situation room for civil society at LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón. The installation includes the full array of props pertaining to this form of architecture -computers at a huge circular table, projections, control panels- and systems designed to monitor a specific territory and its situation in the global context.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dpr-Barcelona
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8461415043
• ISBN 13: 9788461415045
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 110
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible