The mace software at La Biennale exhibition visualises the fabric connecting people, knowledge and artefacts in architecture. The installation transports the idea of a transformable, ever-changing interconnected mesh of contents, projects, people and media in an aesthetically pleasing way. The installation provides background information for the entries of the Everyville student competition. Selected entries are presented with media, descriptions, and metadata. Furthermore, the installation incorporates inspirational projects named by the winning groups; these are connected to mace content and metadata. The installation now acts as amplifier, as the user can not only can explore a project and its media in detail, but reveal the relations to other projects. The evolving structure allows the user to understand the connections between different resources, and recognize where clusters of interest emerge. The visualization aims to make spectators aware of how metadata can be utilised to interconnect architectural resources, and how the overall understanding benefits from these connections.
Everyville 2008 is an initiative made possible by the collaboration of the Biennale with Telecom Italia Technoloy, which has placed its most innovative technology at the service of the competition and display of the winning projects. Software powered by newitalianblood.com and mace. In collaboration with Domus and Foscarini.

venue
Le Artiglierie dell’Arsenale
La Biennale
Venice, Italy

dates
from 11 September, 2008
to 23 November, 2008

hours
10:00 am > 6:00 pm, daily