TrakLab Upgrade at UCA CResCa Strand 1

UCA坎特伯雷建筑与设计学院(CSAD)在建筑和空间设计教育和研究方面有着独特的方法。在东肯特郡的建筑和设计实践网络中，它显然是面向外部的。2014年，CSAD的设施通过“TrakLab”得到增强，提供先进的数字记录、扫描、运动跟踪和增强/虚拟现实。由此产生的混合创作过程，将触觉和材料制作转化为数字表示和分析，丰富了CSAD的教育和研究方法，并丰富了行业对先进数字技术的采用。这项升级TrakLab的投资将对UCA内外产生影响。它将加强加州大学坎特伯雷分校已经提供的专家扫描、跟踪、分析和虚拟/增强现实基础设施，巩固不断增长的研究专业，支持教职员工研究人员的工作，并作为工作人员和PGR学生研究社区的联络点提供空间和设施。这笔投资还将在东肯特创意网络中产生直接的外部好处，支持英国的创意经济，并通过对周围企业和社区开放和可见的倡议，证明以艺术和人文实践为导向的研究的价值，为合作提供门户。

UCA Canterbury School of Architecture and Design (CSAD) has a distinctive approach to architectural and spatial design education and research. It is explicitly outward-facing within East-Kent networks of architectural and design practice. In 2014 CSAD's facilities were augmented by 'TrakLab', providing advanced digital recording, scanning, movement tracking, and augmented/virtual reality. The resulting hybrid creative processes, translating tactile and material making into digital representation and analysis, enriched CSAD's approaches to education and research, and industry uptake of advanced digital techniques. This investment for an upgraded TrakLab will impact within UCA and beyond. It will enhance the specialist scanning, tracking, analysis and virtual/augmented reality infrastructure already on offer at UCA Canterbury, consolidating a growing research specialism, supporting the work of staff researchers and providing space and facilities as the focal point for a research community of staff and PGR students. The investment will also have immediate external benefits in the East Kent creative network, supporting the UK's creative economy and proving the value of arts and humanities practice-led research with an initiatives that is open and visible to surrounding business and communities, providing a portal for collaboration.