Open Tables

a software application and a spatial environment

Open Tables is a software application and a spatial environment, which researches and facilitates collaborative working between individuals and groups. The first prototype of Open Tables was launched as a website on September 11th at Nous Gallery, London, and as a ‘fast architecture’ installation at the Tent London 2008 design event, at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane between 18th and 21st September.

The core purpose of Open Tables is to explore the potential for new kinds of collaborative working to emerge in spaces that combine analogue and digital modes of interaction: engaging both the mind and the senses in the navigation and production of information. A typical meeting room has a table to sit around, and probably a flip chart and projector. More creative organisations often realise the importance of providing a variety of stimuli and environments, and typically have some break out, lounge like spaces. Open Tables combines these two familiar conditions, and intensifies them by introducing web based information flows and social networking scenarios, using interfaces which are based upon digital projections onto familiar objects, provoking physical interactions with data, often using the whole body, rather than just a mouse and keyboard.

find out more @ http://www.opntables.com/about

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