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Here’s a nice quote from Column Network about the growth of Interactive Architecture.
“In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. “Smart” design was once regarded as the preserve of museum exhibits or Jumbotrom advertising screens, but ‘multi-mediated’ interactive design has started entering into every domain of public and private life as a spatial medium, interactive architecture is revolutionising and reinventing our work, leisure and domestic spaces.
Fast-changing social contexts are dominated by the blurring of boundaries between work and play, information retrieval and use. Pliable and responsive digital environments raise the haptic and intuitive threshold of public and private space by harnessing physical and mental responses. Will interactive architecture embrace a wider scope of functions and experiences – from sensing mechanisms, to the info-lounge, to the ambient home environment and the holistic hospital – through customisable design possibilities?”
July 9th, 2005
Interactive Furniture is as important as Interactive Architecture in my book so this conference that my good friend Chris O’Shea was taking part in at Château-d’Oex ,a lovely Swiss village near Geneva is of interest to me. Check out the projects being discussed at the conference.
Collaborative Artefacts Interactive Furniture
June 24th, 2005
Stephen Perrella’s hypersurface is a realitively new theory of liquid-embodied architecture to displace the nostalgia and re-realization being carried into the spatial conceptions of new-media technology. He doesn’t believe we should think of cyberspace with conventional assumptions but accept we are already inside of it.
“Hypersurfaces is the word we are using to describe any set of relationships that behave as systems of exchange.”
Stephen Perrella’s 2 publications Hypersurface Architecture I
and Hypersurface Architecture II look at the new relations and affects between media and topological surfaces in architecture.
I especially recommend Hypersurface Architecture II
which contains work and words from Philip Johnson, Gillis Deleuze, Lars Spurbroek, Karl Chu, and Foreign Office Architects, Bernard Tschumi, dECOi and Gillian Hunt.
Interface not only divides spatial realms but allows for the projection and performance of desire to cross borders. Interface negotiates the laminar flow of meaning, the becoming of life traversing an incessant problematic of language/substance in an endlessly interrelated information landscape. The screen that negotiates increasing quantities of intention is only a material artifact.
May 3rd, 2005
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