What about Charlie, what about the okay more, a responsive environment treatment, you know, the typewriter that you touch the letter “a” and the springs at you from the walls and you hear it, you feel it...what about the possibility of designing for artifacts in museums, also a responsive environments, that in which the audience could experience this participation, that when they had recognized the nature of the artifact, why the bells and buzzers were moving from all over the place? That this kind of recognition, pattern recognition, would then be paid off by the environment, going into action.
Tony Schwartz’s Tape on “The Museum Without Walls” (1967), Youtube Transcript: 13.05
Year: 1967
Chapter:
Pattern Recognition
↪ Also at #4825
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan