The Irresistible Animacy of Lively Artefacts

February 2, 2019 | Ruairi Glynn

This thesis explores the perception of ‘liveliness’, or ‘animacy’, in robotically driven artefacts. This perception is irresistible, pervasive, aesthetically potent and poorly understood. I argue that the Cartesian rationalist tendencies of robotic and artificial intelligence research cultures, and associated cognitivist … Read More

(Foreword) Interactive Architecture: Adaptive World

July 6, 2015 | Ruairi Glynn

Foreword written by Ruairi Glynn in July 2015. This is a pre-edited version.

Looking through the work in this book, I am immediately struck by how much has changed in the landscape of interactive architecture over the past five years. … Read More