I.F.L.Y.

I.F.L.Y. is a project that envisions a future where robots are integrated into our daily lives in both the real and virtual worlds.

Taking the form of an autonomous flying balloon, this pre-programmed robot interacts with humans giving an illusion … Read More

Your Eye’s Motion by Luna

Your Eye’s Motion by LUNA i”‹s an exploration of human perception through robotic motion. The installation tracks the position of your eye and the direction of gaze as an input for controlling a small robotic arm situated inside an enclosed environment. … Read More

Six Movements @Ars Electronica Festival

We’re pleased to announce the Interactive Architecture Lab returns to Linz, Austria for its second time exhibiting at the legendary Ars Electronica Festival.

“Look only at the movements – and they will bring you to matter.” SIX MOVEMENTS showcases six … Read More

Prototypes in Public

Prototypes in Public is the first distributed exhibition of the Interactive Architecture Lab, presented across London at the Barbican Centre, Tate Britain, Fold Nightclub and Samsung Flagship Store. These venues with their different audiences act as a testbed for work … Read More

Creative Coding Summer School

The Interactive Architecture Lab is organising the first Bartlett Creative Coding Summer School  9-20 September 2019.  The course introduces participants to computer programming as a creative discipline for expression. Whether you are an artist, designer, or architect, creative coding can offer … Read More

Élan Vital

A project exploring the notions of the invisible ‘Life Force’ that may occupy our physical spaces, the culmination of a series of experiments over fifteen months using interactive light artefacts infused with artificial life algorithms to respond to human movement. Employing elementary computer vision to capture human motion, data is parsed into three dimensional volumes using the technique of ray marching and illuminated onto reconfigurable spatial constructs.Read More

Mind and Space in Flux | Designing a physical interaction in a space with memory of the users’ experiences through time

During an architectural experience, the architectural space and the human mind infinitely interact. Spatial experience is a non-ending interactive loop where the perceptual space changes by the mind, and the human mind changes during the current experience. The thesis aims … Read More

Bad (Habit)at: Architecture as Action Forms

“The objects which surround my body reflect its possible action upon them.” (Bergson, 1988, p. 21)

As humans, we would like to believe in the autonomy we hold over our actions. However, we have to concede that we do not … Read More

Neoteny: A diary of documentation of my cross sensory relation exploration between body movement, posture and environmental context using bio-sensing

Acknowledging and reflecting upon how the 21st century discourses that shape the notion of body extension, this design thesis presents a quantitative documented work in which a woman experiments with the possibility of amplifying her autobiographical memories by interposing … Read More

(Un)Balance _ Mindfulness through movement-based interactive experiences in XR

This paper aims at exploring the potential of movement-based interactive experiences in XR to train mindfulness, and more specifically four of its main facets: Awareness towards inner experiences, Awareness towards outer experiences, Relativity of thoughts and beliefs, and Openness to … Read More

NeoTouch. An exploration of future haptic technology and the ethics and social norms surrounding it.

This thesis is part of a critical design project that envisions a future haptic communication device, NeoTouch, that enables people to touch each other at a distance. The project goes beyond imagining the technical development and the precise functionality of … Read More

Study Design for Performance & Interaction at UCL

At the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London — the UK’s leading and largest Faculty of the Built Environment — we have a new 15-month Masters programme Design for Performance & Interaction offering students an opportunity to learning about Design in 4 … Read More

Analog Future

This project questions the emerging technologies in contemporary music, art, and architectural practices; notions of spatiality in translating from the physical to the virtual. These translations are not lossless, that what is missing is a sense of presence, or what … Read More

The space moulded by the body

This thesis illustrates how moulding the space with our bodies is a constant construction of experiences that forms and re-forms who we are. The use of a choreographic object ‘Locus’ enables the bodies within and around it to inhabit and … Read More

Fifteen Exhibition 2018

A public exhibition celebrating fifteen months of innovative work by graduating Design for Manufacture, Design for Performance & Interaction and Situated Practice Master’s students. The exhibition was designed by DfPI tutor Dr Vasilija Abramovic.

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Predictability vs. Creativity: An investigation of auto-pedagogical collective systems promoting individuals’ non-trivial responses

The modern era is characterized by technological revolution and environmental changes. Today’s environments are shifting faster than ever in the way they operate making people’s ability to be adaptable essential. However, this rapid change found them in societies and built … Read More

Analog Future: Materiality in the Digital Arts

This paper questions notions of spatiality in translating from the physical to the virtual. By discussing and recontextualizing Jean Baudrillard’s concept of the hyperreal in a digital modernity, I question the emerging technologies in contemporary music, art, and architectural practices. … Read More