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The core project within my PhD research has been the development of a system as an extension of existing media facades that allows me to test the representation of information and ideas as form within space that is constantly generated and regenerated as a result of fresh input. The hypothesis of my PhD is that this real time reconfiguration of space using light offers a variety of new perceptions ranging from information sharing to public art never experienced previously. During my research, I have established an extensive body of evidence that points to a growing scholarship around the details and impacts of media fa‡ade technological developments and the content displayed on them. In the thesis I define the boundaries of these technology shifts and enhanced content combinations limited to 2 dimensions. In my research I consider the technical and media implications of extending conventional 2D screens which are limited currently to architectural cladding into a 3D matrix or voxel facade thereby causing an alteration to spatial perception through the content animating the voxel matrix.

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Dr./Dipl.-Ing. (Fh) M. Hank Haeusler finished his PhD at SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory) / RMIT University, Melbourne under the supervision of Prof Mark Burry in October 2007. He received the RMIT University Research Prize in recognition of the achievement of excellence in a Higher Degree by Research Program assessed in 2008.

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