On the Western Front

A very solemn Designing Worlds show takes us through a simulation of the First World War battle fields on the western front. Join Saffia and Elrik as they visit the sights, hear the sounds and talk with sim designer, Csteph Submariner

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Welcome to the Designing Worlds Forum!
Posted in Designing Worlds forum by Saffia Widdershins on 17 January 2010
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Hello everyone!

Welcome to the new website and the new forums! I hope we can see people in here discussing the shows - the issues - and what they'd like to see on forthcoming shows!

wiznord
Reply from Wiz Nordberg on 17 January 2010.

Saffia!!!! So brave you are, making the first forum post! I hope you like the new setup, and there are still more things coming, but I think we got things to the point where we felt things were "mostly working". Keep an eye out for bugs, and if you find them, our mission will be the squash em!

elrikmer
Reply from Elrik Merlin on 17 January 2010.

Our new season starts this week, and we have an exciting selection of topics lined up. We do hope you'll enjoy them. And don't forget, if you know somewhere that will be of interest to us or our listeners, on any grid, do let us know.

lacombe
Reply from Linus Lacombe on 17 January 2010.

Saffia! I am so glad to see that you have procured this forum! I watched a couple of the videos of DW here on the TreetTV site, and they work marvelously well. I really enjoyed the Christmas show in Rothesey. My doesn't Elrik have a lovely home there!

Aisling
Reply from Aisling Sinclair on 18 January 2010.

Hi everyone! What a great new forum for us to gather and talk about the show. Elrik's right, we do have some really interesting places to take viewers this season, and the first one is...well, that would be telling. But I wonder, might giraffes be involved?

Designing Worlds finds Romance on Midsomer Isle
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 9 February 2010
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Join us today at 2.00pm in our studio in Northpoint for our show when we visit one of the most romantic locations in Second Life, Midsomer Isle (and its two associated sims, Midsomer Meadows and Midsomer Nigh.

View of Midsomer Isle by PJ TrentonView of Midsomer Isle by PJ Trenton

Two Immersive Environments Collide
Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 3 February 2010
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The latest edition of Designing Worlds (episode 73) was extraordinarily fact-filled, in my view. Of course, we always have quite a lot of information in our programmes, but our guests from Bristol University had a great deal to share with us about the Pompeii Court at the Sydenham Crystal Palace and their re-creation of it in Second Life. Do have a look at the show.

Designing Worlds: Beautiful Buildings of Al Andalus
Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 27 January 2010
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This week on Designing Worlds we visit the regions of Al Andalus and in particular the Alhambra, home to some of the most beautiful recreations of historic real-life buildings you'll find in Second Life. In addition we talk to Rose Springvale and Jamie Palisades about how the political system in the Confederation of Democratic Sims operates. The programme represents a great introduction to the region and what goes on there. Click here to view the show.

Designing Worlds: The Alhambra & Al Andalus
Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 26 January 2010
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Today on Designing Worlds we're visiting the four sims of Al Andalus in Second Life, and take a tour of some of the quite remarkable World Heritage sites recreated there, including the castle and palaces of the Alhambra. We'll also discover a little about the philosophy behind these SL regions.

The show begins at 2pm SLT (22:00 GMT) and you can watch live either in our studio at Northpoint, or here at the Treet.TV site - just click the "Watch LIVE" button.

Put Designing Worlds on your site!
Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 24 January 2010
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If you like a particular Designing Worlds show, and you have a blog or web site, did you know that you can embed the show in your own page so your visitors can see it? Well, now you can - and we'll link back to you!

Designing Worlds visits Virtual Africa
Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 21 January 2010
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In our latest show we visited Virtual Africa with Alanagh Recreant of Uthango. Alanagh gave us a very spirited tour of several of the main areas in the four-sim region and we all learned a great deal. I would encourage viewers to visit Virtual Africa themselves - there is a lot more there than we had time to show.

Visit Virtual Africa with Designing Worlds!
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 19 January 2010
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Join us today at 2.00pm in our studio in Northpoint for the first show of our new season - our third! - when we visit Virtual Africa in Second Life.

This amazing project is run by Alanagh Recreant of Uthango Social Investments, a South African not-for-profit organisation. The region consists of four private islands, some of which we will be exploring on the show, will discussing initiatives and projects with Alanagh.

Designing Worlds: The Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum
Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 3 December 2009
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This time we have a particularly visual show for you, that will surely pique the interest of anyone with an eye for architecture and design, in-world or out, as we visit Second Life's Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, in the region of Usonia.

Frank Lloyd Wright is widely regarded as the leading American architect of the 20th century, with a career spanning over half of it. His earliest work dates back to the early 1900s, while his last design, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, was built in 1959.