Abstract

. We describe fieldwork with (landscape) architects in which we identify key features of their work settings. We analyse the ways in which materials, many of them graphic and visual, are assembled, arranged and manipulated as an integral aspect of their work. We describe an early prototype of a 3D environment to provide a digitallyenhanced work setting, the organisation of which will emerge from use by practitioners. Picture a practice of architects in their design studio. There are several interconnected largish rooms, each with two or three desks, each of these with a workstation. Some desks are sparse and tidy, perhaps with a single printed plan. Others are a seeming jumble of disparate materials -- plans, sketches, notes, photographs, documents, books, samples. On a large display table there is a more `staged' setting of material on show -- inspirational objects, art and design books and magazines open at particular pages, drawings of a recent project. On another table is a large ...

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