This documentation focuses on the student's projects and thematic interpretations within the context of the design of media environments. Here the students have responded to themes, which attempt to cross the thresholds between real mediated rooms and virtual techno-zones as well as the relationship between cultural identity and electronic memory. These themes have included research into the social implications of media and its effect on the future of representation and immersion in the space of the screen. The resultant students media-works have not only attempted to expand the definitions of spatial and temporal design but also encouraged the possibility that a critical approach to media can be substantiated with a solid background in theoretical research leading to provocative and productive questions.

Since may 1998, we have collected these themes and broadly divided them into three related categories or memory pools, Re-constructing Nature, Cyborgs and Cyber-Fusion. Within these memory pools [as in the myth of narcissus] media-technology is regarded as a development associated with fear as well as fascination. We researched the idea that the links between today's concepts of media and ecological systems, human bodies and traditional borders have beneficial changes to explore.
However, we also wanted to keep in mind that the abusive or manipulative uses of this very same media-technology could disrupt the fragility of our cultural memory and perhaps even our very biological existence.