{"id":76,"date":"2003-02-01T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:01:30","slug":"the-drift-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/the-drift-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drift Table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Drift Table is an electronic coffee table that allows people to float slowly over the British landscape from the comfort of their own home. The surface of the table is sensitive to the weight of objects placed on it and uses this as an input to control the slow scroll of aerial photographs visible through a central viewport. Adding objects causes the table to speed up and descend towards the landscape below. Progress is slow &#8211; travelling from London to Devon may take days. The current location is shown on a small screen on the side of the table. Designed long before Google Maps was available on everyone&#8217;s phone, the Drift Table creates a kind of crack in the enclosure of the home, that promotes daydreaming and imagination. It isn&#8217;t for anything in a utilitarian sense: it provides a resource that people can use or play with as they wish.<br><br>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/the-drift-table-designing-for-ludic-engagement\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/the-drift-table-designing-for-ludic-engagement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for a conference paper about the project.<br><br>Date: 2003<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irs.mikevanis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Drift-Table-1_2000px_72dpi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of the Drift Table's side view showing the small place name display\" class=\"wp-image-372\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irs.mikevanis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Drift_06_2000px_72dpi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a participant looking down into the viewport of the Drift Table\" class=\"wp-image-369\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irs.mikevanis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Drift_04_2000px_72dpi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of the internal structure of the Drift Table\" class=\"wp-image-367\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irs.mikevanis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Drift_01_2000px_72dpi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a model of the Drift Table\" class=\"wp-image-364\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irs.mikevanis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Drift_02_2000px_72dpi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a participant looking down into the viewport of the Drift Table in their living room\" class=\"wp-image-365\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irs.mikevanis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/Drift_07_2000px_72dpi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a card prototype of the Drift Table\" class=\"wp-image-370\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Drift Table is an electronic coffee table that allows people to float slowly over the British landscape from the comfort of their own home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}