Having used both the compass and the flâneur as models for hypermedia composition, students need to find a way to construct their own spaces between (within, drawn from) those models. Two things need to be foregrounded in this third phase of the pedagogy:

  • Design becomes very important as the method by which these different grammars and systems are articulated. The choices to use certain navigational markers or to leave them out, to foreground heirarchy or to foreground multilinearity each become significant. Designers make such choices.
  • The very nature of the space being made by the pages cannot be assumed to be "natural" or "given." While the static, settled nature of print space makes its constructedness difficult to ascertain, the dynamic, embattled structure of hypermedia foregrounds structure.
   

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