The CULFUT Project
KBS-Media Lab
Lund University
[projects]
Last update 1995.11.08
Young Generation Designing the Future - CULFUT
Goal/Purpose:
The CULFUT, Cultura Futurus, project aims at Designing the Future through Increasing the Cultural
Consciousness. The aim is to;
- provide a World Wide Web based platform to capture cultural streams through young generation mode of expression
- make trends visible and open for feed-back
- increase understanding and acceptance between cultures and actively contribute to positive attitude changes
- put special emphasis on age related divergences
- show how such an IT-supported platform could be designed and used in educational undertakings
- explain the transformation process from free information
exchange to making business with packeted cultural information for example
in the form of music and graphic art
- elaborate on how the commercialization process interacts with existing
trade and industry
- make visible the emerging computer supported communication patterns between different cultural groups
and especially to;
- demonstrate how information can be structured and be made available to be maximaly attractive over cultural borders
- to demonstrate how trends and new culture expressions can be transmitted and experienced
- demonstrate how mixed multimedia channels can be utilized
- provide an example on how multimedia material can be handled
and used in
educational environments
Relevance:
There are a significant amount of questions that cannot be tackled in the
CULFUT project. But some important issues are raised which have great
relevance in the new reality we are forming.
We are now in the beginning of a significant paradigm shift where we apply the Art of Communication suceeding the art of writing and art of printing. The project will vividely contribute to the understanding of this paradigm shift and the importance of the young generation driving forces.
Novelty:
The project is at the front end when it comes to handle the
paramount global change process. We count on a massive amount oof everyday
people connected to the Internet and the World Wide Web, WWW, in the near future.
A globally established discussion surface is created which is triggered by
the CIRCUIT 'news paper' which canalize, filters and make avialable
the emerging Rave/Techno culture. A good example is created on how
multimedia information can be made available and published.
Methodology:
The KBS-Media Lab computer based demonstrator method is used to generate, communicate, evaluate and implement ideas. A team of specialists is involved in the work; Graphic Design, Information Technology, and Multimedia
and knowledge communication.
An electronic paper is established together with a communiaction area
on an Apple WWW-server platform.
Results:
The results is available and documented on CIRCUIT web-server
and as the functionality itself of the server. The project is virtually unlimited in time.
Project set-up: