- DataCloud by ArchiNed and V2_Lab winner Dutch National Millennium
Competition -
The Datacloud version 2.0 has won the Dutch National Millennium
Competition in the class ‘Science’ for Architecture and Industrial
Design. Receiving an amount of 100 000, - guilders, the prize will assist
in/boost the future development of the ‘knowledge map/browser Datacloud’.
The datacloud is a follow-up of the ‘1.0: Data Cloud Hoeksche Waard’
project, developed by ArchiNed and V2_Lab in 1998/99. It was devised
within the scope of the project AIR - Architecture International
Rotterdam, Southbound.
Piet Vollaard (ArchiNed) received the prize on November 23rd 2000 with
attendance of the Minister of Education, Culture and Science L.M.L.H.A.
Hermans and the Minister for Economic Affairs, A. .Jorritsma-Lebbink at
the parliamentary buildings of The Hague.
The Datacloud Version 2.0 is an Internet environment that functions as an
experimental ‘knowledgemap’: the latter provides an understanding and
visualisation of dynamical processes in information. Integrated into a
fuzzy search engine, visitors of the Datacloud may add information to the
site - photos, texts, audio-and video-fragments. In so doing, the
datacloud becomes an interactive platform on which visitors may discuss
the theme around which the growing collection of information hybridises.
All objects of information are interconnected and accumulate as visitors
may react and add their personal view and experience to the growing cloud
of of interpretations and knowledgeable data.
National Millennium Competition
The assignment for the National Millennium Competition was: “Devise an
innovative project in which the cohesion between culture,
entrepreneurship and science surfaces, developing content which concerns
the Netherlands in the new millennium.
Datacloud 2.0 was one of the eight winners of the National Millennium
Competition.
Datawolk Hoeksche Waard (DWHW) was completely on-line between autumn 1998
and summer 1999, supported by a fast server. The pilotproject can still
be visited on
http://www.dwhw.nl
The working team of Datacloud 1.0: Datacloud Hoeksche
Waard:
Piet Vollaard (conceptual, contextual realisation), ArchiNed
Marc Neelen (contextual realisation), arachnid
Anne Nigten (conceptual, technical realisation), V2_Lab
Jan-Wijbrand Kolman (interaction design), V2_Lab
Rob Bank (programmer)
Fred Inklaar (graphic design)
Assistance Datacloud Hoeksche Waard in the scope of AIR
Zuidwaarts/Southbound:
Lara van Druten, AIR and the region of South-Holland
Mark van de Velde, AIR
For more information and other winners of the National Millemnium
Competition:
Stichting Nederland Cultuur & Innovatie 2000 www.2000-nederland.nl www.archined.nl www.v2.nl/V2_Lab