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Furniture

• Furniture, Interactive, Kinetic

  Robotic Chair

  09.13.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  At Ars Electronica's Cyber Arts exhibition I got to finally see after seeing a prototype video online last year, Max Sean, Raffaello D'Andrea, and Matt Donovan's 'Robotic Chair' project in action. The robotic chair can break apart and then wondrously re-build itself. A video of the chair in action at Ars Electronica is now online […]

• Audio, Devices, Furniture, Interactive, Scuplture/Installation

  Reorient - Migrating Architectures

  09.08.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  "Re:orient – migrating architectures" explores the local aspects of China ’s global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only along retail channels, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever cheaper products. The project follows up this train […]

• Furniture, Visual

  Glofab

  08.11.06 | Permalink | Comment?

   
  Torbjorn Lundell's new light-emitting textile, GloFab launched at the 2006 Stockholm Furniture Fair uses light directed through fiber optic cables which are weaved together to create a range of effects.  Fiber optic cables can only be bent so much before light can no longer pass through them so the knots of GloFab are all kept […]

• Bartlett, Furniture, Interactive, Kinetic

  The Anxious Lounge - Toby Carr

  07.18.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Anxious Lounge': An investigation into the way that active furniture might share space with people. Each piece of furniture has it's own goal set. Toby's work is an extension of his paper '…Emergent Voyeurisms in the Performative space of Architecture and Cinematography' presented at GameSetMatch II in Delft earlier this year in which he […]

• Furniture

  Airbus & BMW Projected Interiors

  04.26.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Airbus A350 will unveil its new A350 twinjet at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2006 exhibition in Hamburg that will feature opulent interiors by BMW. Airbus has linked with BMW Group Designworks to design a new interior on the A350. Chief engineer Dougie Hunter said, “We can project onto the ceiling whatever is appropriate for the […]

• Furniture, Kinetic

  BioWall - Loop.pH

  03.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  “ As it becomes increasingly difficult to read the signs of our natural environment in urban, built landscapes we use plants in our work as we consider them to be the most sophisticated of sensors and displays. ”

  An interesting thought. Last year I posted info about Loop.pH ’s practice and their project digital dawn […]

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