Interface Design Terraforming

Here is the current shape of Democracy Island (16x16 acres of virtual real estate in Second Life), designed and terraformed in a collaboration between the class and Future Prototype, who have been assisting us with some of our first builds:

The spoke-and-hub layout creates a central meeting ground and nexus connecting six mini-islands with their own projects and tools in progress. The pic on the bottom left shows the island being worked on (click to enlarge) and the pic on the bottom middle is from a Second Life town hall meeting (held elsewhere) with over 50 avatars engaged in discussion—such a cool image of the kind of lively civic involvement Democracy Island is being built for.

What an interesting design challenge this is when each of the mini-islands has content that would traditionally be housed on seperate 2D websites. Kind of a mix of web design, social software building, information architecture (literally at times giving form to information), and...landscaping? It strikes me that in laying out the island's geography we're working towards the design of something like a democratic circuit board for efficiently organizing group knowledge and feedback (pic of circuit board with partial island overlay on bottom right), finding the right physical shapes and spatial relationships to make everything work together. Can't wait to see more rules-of-thumb emerging for this kind of spatial design, and to help contribute to those lessons as Democracy Island moves forward.

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