PEM 368E - Dig.Repres.Tech.for Lands.Dsgn

Course Objectives

Understanding the potentiality of the virtual landscape in digital games.
Understanding the current condition and limits of the digital game industry.
Understanding the unique characteristic of a virtual landscape as a design domain.
Understanding the role of landscape architects in near future.

Course Description

Currently, multiple labs and individuals in the landscape architecture domain are trying to adopt advanced technology to enhance both the quality and the efficiency of real space design. However, not only as a visualization or simulation tool but the virtual landscape can be a new design domain by itself. With the advance of computer technology, the industry such as the digital game industry is starting to seek landscape architects and architects who can design a virtual environment and we all need to prepare ourselves.