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./logicaland: Distinction / Net Vision

The web-based simulation ./ logicaland visualizes the changes in complex economical, political and social systems which occur when a community actively intervenes. At this year's Prix Ars Electronica the project has been awarded a Distinction in the category 'Net Vision'.

Based on a scientific global world model of the mid-seventies that was adapted and hacked to fit their needs, Josef Deinhofer, Nik Thonen, Michael Aschauer and Maia Gusberti developed a tool that lets people take part in a simulation. Unlike other tools used in the scientific field it is participative and public.

The main idea behind ./ logicaland is to provide a public web-based world-simulation that offers the possibility to affect, intervene and control the course of the simulation and the results of the prognosis within a participative environment, where all user have equal influence on the system.

./ logicaland tries to engage in strategies of raising human sensitivity and responsibility within the global networked society and to face the challenge to develop ideas, tools and visualization that meet the requirements of complex global and participative environments. ./ logicaland vO.1 is the first attempt of this work in progress to realize a prototype of a global simulation that is to be governed by a community of unlimited participants.

Another important interest in this work is to examine information visualisation strategies and face the question on how they implicate and produce our perception of world. ./ logicaland shows always more than one solution of visualizing a specific content, by providing this multiple access to information and putting them all on the same level of importance Josef Deinhofer, Nik Thonen, Michael Aschauer and Maia Gusberti are trying to give the user another perspective of perception of the content.

The ./ logicaland group wants to invite users all over the world to take part in dealing with global simulation and contribute to logicaland's simulation, one time as user trying to influence the global system and facing the results within the simulation.

./ logicaland is currently based on rw-3, a global world model developed in the mid-1970's by Fred Kile and Arnold Rabehl in Wisconsin, USA. Global world models can be understood as 'computer programs that simulate the world in very broad, comprehensive manner. Geographically, they encompass the entire world or at least a major portion of it. More importantly, they explicitly link together a number of components or aspects of our world such as economics, demographics, politics, and the environment. Because of these traits, integrated global models can be and are used as tools to help us understand processes whose effects cross national borders and whose study crosses disciplinary boundaries.'(Pete Brecke)






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