The course focuses on the combined use of digitized information in order to explain the methods of creating interactive mechanisms and forms of spatial representations through examples of hybrid environments.

In the first part, students are asked to process representations of their personal space in order to produce a “creative self-portrait” by using digitized forms of data exclusively. Moreover, they are instructed how to use non-linear systems in their narration. Thus they acquaint themselves with the meaning of links, essential for building multimedia applications. The final product of this part of the course is an interactive webpage, which constitutes the technical core of each student’s personal webpage. The aim of the second part of the course is the construction of an installation by using multimedia; more specifically, the design of an environment whose main characteristics are controlled or activated by means of digitized technology (i.e., digitized picture, video, sound, projections, etc.). At last, the separate digitized data should be combined following the given instructions. Thus the relation of the real space to the immaterial form of the digitized world is studied, while at the same time the students discover the range of combined applications of the new media, as well as the impact of new technologies on the design procedure of digitized environments.