Aesthetics of Urban Media Façades

Gavin Sade: Aesthetics of Urban Media Façades

Part of Paper Session 3: Critical Perspectives and Urban Curation

Abstract: This paper sets out to develop and extend current literature on design practices for ambient media façades. It does this by bringing together theories of ambient media, computational aesthetics, and urban aesthetics. This unique theoretical combination has informed the design of several exemplars produced by the author, which are discussed as case studies.

Gavin Sade
is an Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Read more about him at the university website

Paper Session 3: Critical Perspectives and Urban Curation
This session takes place in the morning on November 22. It features four talks:

James Miller: Media in Built Environments – the Technologies of Mediatization

Gavin Sade: Aesthetics of Urban Media Façades

Tanya Toft: Situations of Presence – Reclaiming public space in the urban digital gallery

Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska: Critical Perspectives on Media Architecture

Selena Savic and Teresa Heitor: Probing the Network: Architecturality of Wireless Infrastructure