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of contemporary culture. What is needed to develop these insights is an architecture
laboratory, in which new technologies are developed and tested according to their
extended social and societal functions and which could find its definition as an excep-
tional space of experiments.^5
Notes
1 The no_LAb_in_feld is the media-lab of the institute for arch+media. A new laboratory for dig-
ital experimentation in architectural education and research. The novel forms of collaboration
and learning for which it is intended and the quick pace of innovation in digital technology on
which it depends both require an appropriately flexible spatial and technological framework.
And it requires a particular mindset. The no_LAb_in_feld is not just another laboratory. it is
a place, a community, a high-tech construction site, a permanent work in progress. It is the
prototype of a next generation design studio.
2 The MotionTrackingSystem was financed in the context of the austrian university infrastructure
initiative of the advice for research and technology (RFT).
3 Viable and virtual architecture, P. Weibel, 199.
Simplicity – the art of complexity, John Maeda, 2006.
5 cp. Digitale Transformationen, Fleischmann – Reinhard, 200 – Praxis Reaktorbau, Edler &
Edler (S. 216)