The concept for the "whirlds" environment is based on a critical discourse of multi-disciplinary work and drawings by Architect and Urban Designer Daniel Libeskind - based in Berlin, Germany. His most notable work recently is the Jewish Museum Berlin, completed in 2001.

Excerpts from the introduction to "The Space of Encounter", published in 2000:   

"Ever since I began architecture, I've had a abhorrence of conventional architecture offices. There was something about the atmosphere of redundancy, routine, and production that made me allergic to all forms of specialization and so-called professionalism."

"I have found on this very particular path that people, whether here or there or now and then, always expect more of the spaces that they have been given. Tomorrow's citizens will no longer be amenable to receiving in reality what they can simulate in their dreams. We live in an age when economic globalization, the market economy, news media and technological advances make it possible for architecture to consume the immemorial."

In collaboration with Architect Pete Evans, this environment has been developed to serve as a backdrop to the research of XJL and the XJ Nav visualization system.  It is our hope that such innovations may serve as a conduit in order that the dreamers may see their visions come to life.

Additional Media

http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/

http://www.creative-vision.org/portfolio/thesis.html