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...Still, reconfiguring campus space can’t consist entirely of bandaging up old buildings. It has to address spatial scales far larger and far smaller. On the large scale, the shuttle system distorts the way we imagine distance across campus. On the small scale, suite doors, many of which slam shut and lock by default, pull us towards an in-suite, invite-only pattern of socializing. Patterns like these, long taken for granted, coax us into habitual behaviors that, even when comfortable, could stand reexamination. To excavate the manifold ways in which space has guided us into routine...
Deborah Blum, a science journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin will address the controversy at the conference. She pointed out that men tend to be better at spatial reasoning, perhaps because “early in our history, men had to ramble around and make maps...
Kroll criticized the antiquity and spatial design of the river houses for the paucity of wireless access points to cover all the physical spaces and attributed the general satisfaction with wireless in the Quad to the fact that its buildings are more “regularly shaped...
...breakdowns of coordination in his dancers, McGregor hoped to gain an insight into the relationship between their physical and cognitive functions. To this end he submitted the dancers to "perturbations," assigning them tasks like counting backwards while dancing, and making them wear prisms over their eyes to distort their spatial awareness...
...should primarily be placed on Harvard, which apparently doesn’t own enough network addresses for so many students at a given time. “My suggestion is that Harvard try to buy some from MIT,” Kroll says.Kroll also maintains that the antiquity and spatial design of the older Houses could be causing weak wireless access by the Charles. “The River Houses have very peculiarly shaped halls and rooms,” he says, explaining that this limits where Internet cables can be inserted into the outdated floor plans. Along these lines...