Abstract :
This paper is based on a presentation at the
NSEAD/AAIAD Millennium Conference in Bristol,
April 2000 and takes as its focus a recent multimedia
publication, a CD-ROM, commissioned
by Glasgow 1999, entitled ‘Scanning the City’.
The commission was to find effective ways that
students in schools could interrogate the diverse
urban fabric of Glasgow. The electronic revolution
has shifted the paradigms of teaching and
learning by creating the opportunity to engage
interactively with visual and textual data in ways
that permit investigation of the built environments
at a number of levels of intensity. The
paper explains the background to the CD-ROM,
describes the design, content and theoretical
underpinning of ‘Scanning the City’ and discusses
ways it might be used in a variety of
educational contexts. It concludes by looking
forward to the next stages of the research including
a study of how young people and teachers
are using the CD-ROM and other related multimedia
publications.
