'Making an Ecology' Supported by a grant from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ), the Interactive Architecture Workshop of which I am a member of at the Bartlett School of Architecture undertook 'Making an Ecology', a project developed in collaboration with a group of 8-10 year old inner city children at Betty Layward School, London, which aimed to teach them that it is possible to create objects that live in the physical world and interact with each other thus producing an ecology, where people are the intruders.
For the interactive architecture workshop the project aimed to explore sensing, activation and feedback systems that can be used to create a time-based architecture, and how the role of design, especially the choreography of moving objects, is crucial to this. Making an Ecology culminated in an installation comprising an interactive agent based floor projection, derived from the workshop recordings and developed by Research Assistant Andrew Huntington , and a floor sensing system which I built.
Below are some images of the drawings by the children who were asked to invent stories about their invented characters in storyboard form. These were then enacted by the children themselves. The performance was then filmed and used by Andrew Huntington to help to create the interactive animations.
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