This document provides an overview of the topics and schedule for the ARC8027 Ambience and Atmospheres course at Newcastle University. The following key points are discussed:
- The course covers topics like architecture and interaction design, ambience and atmospheres, workshops on active forms and proximity/fields/thresholds.
- Guest speakers will discuss topics like transport planning and ambient computing.
- Homework assignments involve reading about journeying toward extravagant place-based computing, and finding examples of interaction design projects that go beyond ambient computing and subtly change architectural spaces.
- The schedule provides dates for topics, workshops, reviews and tutorials from February to May.