{"609521":{"#nid":"609521","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Case for Rooms","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELiterature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E was quoted in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECity Lab\u003C\/em\u003E, August 6, article, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/study-us-unlikely-to-see-new-nuclear-power-anytime-soon\/\u0022\u003EThe Case for Rooms\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo; The Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent essay in The Atlantic, Ian Bogost described a new luxury concept called the \u0026ldquo;mess kitchen\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;a second kitchen out of sight from the main kitchen and the rest of the open plan. He cited it to demonstrate why the open floor plan and its rhetoric around \u0026ldquo;entertaining\u0026rdquo; have reached new levels of absurdity. However, to me, the mess kitchen offers hope for a transitional period where open spaces may become closed again.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2018\/08\/the-case-for-rooms\/563216\/?utm_source=twb\u0022\u003ECity Lab\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-08-09 14:41:43","changed_gmt":"2018-08-14 14:06:46","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Zainab Arshad","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2018\/08\/the-case-for-rooms\/563216\/?utm_source=twb","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=2iLPi4HX"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178699","name":"open floor plan"},{"id":"178027","name":"home design"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}