University of Cincinnati
College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning

Daap

Daap is the virtual world of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Daap has been used as an environment to test models of sculpture and other three dimensional projects by faculty, students, and guests of the college. Fine Art Media Fundamentals, Modeling for 3 Dimensional Networking, and Computer Sculpture, are courses which have been taught using Daap as a venue for the presentation of student work.

Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, California

accd

The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California's virtual world, accd is designed by students as part of two courses, Virtual Worlds Theory and Virtual Worlds Design, taught by Michael Heim, author of Virtual Realism [Oxford University Press].

University of Toronto
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology

mcluhan

The mcluhan world is part of the ....

University of Colorado, Boulder
College of Business

ucbcob01

For a short article on the ucbcob world see: http://www.insidedenver.com/internet/0719cyb2.html

NASA Ames Research Laboratory

NasaNa_

NASA's public virtual version of the Ames Research Laboratory in Active Worlds features many opportunities and activities for students online and in 3D, including live outreach for groups of students to meet experts in a Pathfinder course module and an exhibition linked to many pages within the NASA Ames Research Lab's Home Site.

Boston Museum of Science

SFX

The Boston Science Center has built a virtual world installation as part of their new exhibition, Special Effects. The SFX world in Active Worlds invites the general public to see a virtual companion exhibit similar to the real exhibition in Boston. Exhibit visitors can go into AW through a kiosk at the Museum. AW visitors and museum visitors to SFX world can enjoy the virtual exhibition at the same time and see each other.

TheU Virtual University
Architecture Competition

TheU

In early 1998 Stuart Gold directed a joint project of SRT Enterprises, the Contact Consortium and Circle of Fire in TheU to bring together 34 different teams in an architecture competition in Active Worlds. Each team was given two months to design and build a demonstration model for a Virtual University and three winning entries were selected in Spring 1998. The judges included: Derrick Woodham, Gerhard Schmitt, Hani Rashid, John Tiffin, Marcos Novak, Murray Turoff and Stuart Gold.

Oslo School of Architecture

Aho

Aho 1 & 2 World is a cluster of worlds that acts as an experiment in education.

University of California, Santa Cruz

VHS - Virtual High School

This demonstration virtual high school was built for the University of California, Santa Cruz VHS Feasibility Study and features an office with office hours, Spanish Wing, Science Lab with a chemistry simulation in the "Student WebQuest Wing," and a gallery show on Geometry and Art.This virtual high school demonstration model was designed and built by Zg and Aurac of Active Arts Design and its content and concept were developed by Bonnie DeVarco. The first VHS was initiated and hosted by Stuart Gold and Bruce Damer in TheU. Another public version of the VHS demonstration model is now also in Zg world.

Haags Montessori Lyceum,
Netherlands,
School 204, St. Petersburg, Russia
Institut Notre Dame, Meudon, France

EDU_HML

This educational world called "The Virtual City" is an international cooperative project between three schools in Europe. Each building in The Virtual City has to have an educational function. - "Since we are (as far as we know) the first schools in the world to launch a project like this, there isn't anyone who has any experience in creating the type of world that we need."

United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization

Virtualia

Virtualia is an experiment in fractal-like surfaces and automated building, built by Lucio Pascarelli, who is now designing a similar world for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This world is an experiment to find ways to generate 3D surfaces from data for educational purposes.

The Center for
Advanced Learning Technologies

INSEAD

The Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT), located in France is increasingly regarded as Europe's leading R&D initiative in the domain of advanced learning technologies for management education and knowledge management. Their virtual world in Active Worlds is public and serves as a virtual environment to test CALT's experimental projects.

Active Arts Design
Prototype Virtual University

Zg

The world Aurac was built and designed by Aurac, HenrikG and Zg of the Active Art Design Team and was the award winning entry in TheU Architecture Competition to Design a Virtual University in 1998. Drawing on their considerable experience with Active Worlds software, the team produced a visually unique and influential learning environment. It included the widely publicised Learning Towers, where it is possible to discover about some of the intricacies of working with AW, as well as a library, exhibition hall and main reception building, complete with purpose built lecture theatre. This world was closed after the competition but was recently resurrected by popular demand in the world Zg where it has since been enhanced in the spirit of the original enterprise.

3D Atlas of Cyberspaces

ATLAS

The ATLAS gallery opened to the public on the 3rd of September 1998. They hold regular seminars in the gallery where visitors can meet and chat with the Atlas of Cyberspaces curator Martin Dodge and other cyber-cartographers, asking questions on mapping and visualising Cyberspace. The gallery currently contains three themed groups of pictures arranged around the points of a compass. In the east we have maps using geographic metaphors, in the west are images of 3D information space and lastly in the south are information maps.

University of Cincinnati
Department of Biological Sciences

Bioworld

The Virtual Campus of the Dept. of Biological Sciences is a new virtual world connected to their Biology department.

ThinkQuest
Student-built Competition World

PacificO

The Pacific0 world is a 3D virtual companion world to an hub for information on the Pacific Ocean. Students created and maintain this web site and world for the 1998 ThinkQuest Competition.

Virtual Charters School, UK.

Aurac

Virtual Charters - the UK's first Virtual High School - Active Art Design, winners of the 1998 TheU Architecture Competition to design a Virtual University, donated the prize world to their local High School and have been assisting the students and teachers in their first foray into cyberspace. The school has decided to create a mixed environment with both real-life and fantasy buildings. The world is still very much 'under construction', but will be contain curriculum specific study areas which can be used by both students and teachers to assist with both classwork and homework assignments. Presenlty, the world features a replica of the main school building and a Student Art exhibition which is housed in a purpose built hexagonal gallery designed and curated by Geoff Kerrins. Science and mathematics areas are currently under construction. This world is not yet open to the public, but will be open for the duration of Avatars98 - the world name, should you care to visit, is Aurac.

Cluster of Middle Schools

Sacred Heart School

This educational experiment led by Bruce Carey, is an educational world built and used by middle school students in New Zealand.

Cornell University
Cornell Theory Center

SciCentre

Led by Margaret Corbit, The Cornell Theory Center is building a virtual museum called SciCentre. This museum will be a multi-user, interactive online world for science education. This world is modeled on a cross between a conventional science project and a World's Fair.

Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
University College London

Scicity

The website uses a graphical front end to let visitors explore how Science, Engineering and Technology affect their everyday lives. The Scicity world takes this one step further, allowing users to explore Science City in 3d for the first time. The Active Worlds version of Science City is a 3d virtual representation of the site.

Stanford University
PBL Laboratory Dept. of Civil Engineering

PBL is a process of teaching and learning that focuses on problem based, project centered activities that produce a product for a client. PBL will be based on re-engineering processes that bring people from multiple disciplines together.

San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation

Circle of Fire has worked closely with the San Jose Tech museum of Innovation to design the Electronic Café in Active Worlds.The display, scheduled to opening in October 1998 features 12 computer terminals hooked to the intranet. The environments will allow museum users to interact within rich environments designed for gaming and Entertainment applications. See http://www.thetech.org/press_resources/communication.html for an overview of this project.