knowledge box
In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a ‘knowledge box’, a compressed environment for experiencing ‘culture’: a cube of wood, masonite and steel equipped with twenty-four slide projectors and audio-suppliers. Briefly: a pre-internet device to transmit narratives in a non-linear way, an immersive environment between artistic installation and interaction design which questioned the “passive” models of transmission of information.
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