Uploaded on 2017-09-13 by Frederik Pedersen

The image is of Aarhus Theater (I was not able to type in the real name in place). Of visible information you have all kinds. Architectural you have the historical inspiration of classical architecture but also the Jugendstil with its inspiration in natural shapes, art and sculptures decorating the building. In terms of contemporary information you have posters displaying which shows are on, dates and some prices. You also have signs labelling what doors lead to (ticket office, the main stage and a cafe). Invisible data and information. You could extract more ticket prices, number of shows, number of viewers for each show, age demografic, types of shows and correlate these data into different kinds of information. What shows attract most people? Domestic or international? Cheap or expensive? Classical or contemporary? Comedy or drama? What do young people watch and what do old people watch etc.? One example of how information could be used: Let us suppose that there is a political goal to broaden the young peoples understanding of classical history and gain deeper understanding of fundamental human dilemmas. So we want them to watch more Greek tragedys. So we correlate data to find information on how many young people watch the Greek and Roman classics and we try to simulate how we could manipulate the factors in order to make that happen. We may find out that they prefer contemporary comedy, so we make The Odyssey happen in a contemporary environments as a comedy. That way we use an Informations Architecture building to plan and manage urban culture and hopefully improve the life-quality of the citizens by both cultural education and cultural consumption.