The Content Creation Workplace is unique, and constantly evolving.
One task many producers and managers never trained for is the leadership of designing and building a workplace for their organization. In this presentation, Bice C. Wilson & Francois de Marginac of MDA/DPX Architects will provide an overview of the process, the issues and the routes around the pitfalls of this challenging undertaking.
Chuck Sherwood of Teledimensions Inc. will address planning issues specifically related to Community Media Center Design. Attendees will be better prepared to present their ideas and requirements to their organization's leadership.
This presentation will also prepare those utilizing the Free Media Facilities Design Center (Exhibition Hall) for a more productive experience.
Meridian Design Associates is a 20-year-old design and planning firm, lead by Bice C. Wilson, AIA, and Antonio Argibay, AIA. Wilson and Argibay are architects whose unique backgrounds include pioneering interactive telecommunications and video art in the 1970s. Now, with offices in New York's Soho district, Miami, and Geneva, Switzerland, and an association with a firm in New Delhi, India, ongoing clients include CBS/Viacom, Tribune, CNN, AOL Time Warner, ABC, NBC, Spanish Broadcasting System, and many other companies throughout the industry. Meridian Design Associates also works in the high-end hospitality and residential fields.
MDA has won awards for urban design and for practical implementation of the concept of bio-regionalism in regional planning. It is also known for its work in urban and suburban redevelopment, incuding the re-establishment of a social community in the design of what is now known as Willingboro Town Center, New Jersey, on what was previously a 57-acre abandoned shopping mall from the post-WWII Levittown developments.
Bringing its architectural expertise into an artistic context, MDA is developing The Global Music Project. Site specific sculptures located around the world in various regional installations will be triggered by the sun at high noon to create sound and video transmissions via multimedia technologies to the web, in an exploration of the integration of place, time and sound.