McLuhan Year 2011 in Katowice
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In 2011 we are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, whose impact on media, education and art from the perspective of the contemporary global village cannot be overestimated.
The project explores various aspects of cyberculture: science, technology, new media research, design, artistic events, social interactions and media education. It is prepared by a team of experts from Media Institute in Katowice in cooperation with Katowice: City of Gardens — European Capital of Culture 2016.
The project is directed towards the local community, especially children, youth and elderly people. Our activities aim at fostering the developement of information society in Upper Silesia, the most industrial region of Poland. Cybergarden is concentrated around the issues of accessibility of interfaces and public space, local identity and media ecology, social dialogue and understanding of the new media. Our special area of interest lies in research on perception, media literacy and design accesible to people with vision impairments.
We hope that a user-friendly digital environment in connection with the real urban space and willingness to answer to the needs of city inhabitants can help the local community better communicate with the global world.
January 1 – December 31, 2011
Kotowice, Poland