Edouard Bannwart
Edouard Bannwart (DE) (1943-2007) is an architect, urban planner and VR pioneer.
projection Echtzeit GMBH; photo: Jan Sprij
Prof. Edouard Bannwart lives and works as an architect and
urban planner in Berlin/Germany. He taught at the Hochschule
der Künste, Berlin, from 1971-87 and is a co-founder of
ART+COM whose managing chairman he was from 1988-94. Since
1994 Bannwart has been the director of the newly founded
media design company EchtZeit. The company which has five
distributed offices in Berlin and Cologne, investigates
the use of advanced 3D design systems (especially VR) in
the context of distributed communication and working environments
across broadband networks. It is specially involved in the
design of 3D virtual worlds as future communication and
working platforms, the design of virtual navigation and
communication tools for computer supported work, the design
and organisation of exhibitions and information events to
present advanced telecommunication scenarios with Virtual
Reality, the organisation and evaluation of these technologies
and their potential use in the process of industrial production,
marketing and distribution, the consulting and support of
companies introducing Virtual Reality and telecommunication
technologies in their organisation structure, and the investigation
and testing of the prerequisites for a future virtual marketplace.
Nederlands
Edouard Bannwart werkt als an architect and stadsplanner in Berlijn/Duitsland. Hij heeft les gegeven aan de Hochschule der Künste, Berlijn, en is mede-oprichter van ART+COM. Sinds 1994 is Bannwart de directeur van de nieuw media design bedrijf EchtZeit. Publicaties van hem zijn o.a. (met C. Alsdorf): Virtual Reality als immaterielle Infrastruktur, Copernicus, 1995.
(1996)
