TouchMe – Blendid

I saw TouchMe by Dutch interaction design group Blendid on wmmna a few months ago but it was a recent video taken at STRP festival in Eindhoven shown on Culturetv that caught my attention showing the vertical screen appear … Read More

Glofab

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 … Read More

Opposition

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Another interactive kinetic sculpture from Jonathan Schipper , 2 participants are taken from the audience and buckled into the saddles on either end of the machine. The participants are then lifted into the air. Both participants are provided … Read More

Invisible Sphere – Johnathan Schipper

A 5.5 foot diameter sphere covered with video monitors & surveillance cameras. each monitor displays a live video feed from a camera placed on the opposite side of the sphere. the sphere, created by Jonathan Schipper , … Read More

Kubik – Modulorbeat

Three architects and urbanists from modulorbeat have used some 160 conventional 1000-litre water tanks to build a temporary open air night club called Kubik.

The plastic tanks are filled with luminous bulbs so that VJs can turn … Read More

Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design

Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design is Lucy Bullivant's sequel to 4dspace: Interactive Architecture which again looks at some of the work of interactive artists/architects working in the trans-disciplinary field of interactive architecture. Lucy's first book 4dspace was an excellent … Read More

Symphonic House

Symphonic House  is a joint experiment between David Hanawalt, Architect and Bill Close, Sonic Installation Artist; The House explores the integration of site, sight and sound through the creation of architecture as musical instruments.

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Electric Plaid – International Fashion Machines

IFM's Electric Plaid is a unique textile display technology and design material. It is used by IFM to create hand woven, sensuous individual artworks, interior design and architectural surfaces. Electric Plaid combines woven electronic circuits, color-change inks … Read More

Waves – Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler

Waves is a sound installation that uses buoys to connect wading pools in two different locations and create sound compositions generated by the energy of waves in a wading pool. An accelerometer in each buoy measures the magnitude … Read More

The Office For Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau For Responsive Architecture

Filamentosa: An ultra-lightweigh skyscraper using an actuated tensegrity structure exo-skelital frame tethered internal core. (2004)

The Office For Robotic Architectural Media & The Bureau For Responsive Architecture (oframBFRA) is a small, award winning, architectural practice that designs buildings as … Read More

Utility Fog – John Storrs Hall

Imagine it is the year 2100. The population of the Earth, doubling every 30 years or so, has reached nearly 50 billion souls. The price of a comfortable single-family house on one acre in New Jersey, doubling every 10 years … Read More

Some thoughts on Responsive Kinetic Architecture

Institut du Monde Arabe

The idea of a responsive architecture is simply fascinating. The façade of Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe comes immediately to mind, especially the way its lenses respond to changing light levels; likewise, … Read More

Homographies – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

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I saw Rafaiel Lozano-Hemmer give a talk about his exciting work to the Bartlett School of Architecture earlier this year which included a short introduction to HOMOGRAPHIES while it was still in development. Now complete it is … Read More

Genetec – Stanza.

I had the pleasure of meeting Stanza at 'Sum (1,4,6)' a few months ago when we were both involved in a night of audio visual performances as part of NodeLondon. It was there that I found out about his interest … Read More

Implant Matrix – Philip Beesley

Implant Matrix by Philip Beesley is an interactive geotextile that could be used for reinforcing landscapes and buildings of the future. The matrix is capable of mechanical empathy. A network of mechanisms react to human occupants … Read More

Achim Wollscheid

I encountered the work of Achim Wollscheid through the excellent We-Make-Money-Not-Art when Regine recently posted his recent Inlet/Outlet installation exhibited at Sonambiente in Berlin. 

It is a simple project where the movement of inhabitants in a … Read More

Miles Kemp – Meta Morphic “Living” Architecture

Miles Kemp explored the question ‘Why can't architecture grow with us?’ for his Masters Thesis at Southern California Institute of Architecture. Inspired by the actuation of miniature robotic modules like the “Self-replicating, Self-sustaining and Adaptive Machines ” … Read More

The Anxious Lounge – Toby Carr

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 … Read More