Ruairi Glynn, PhD and stuff...me feeling tiny...

"Architecture traditionally has been considered the spatial backdrop to social interaction. But increasingly architects enabled by computational technologies are creating spaces that can engage actively within these social interactions."

http://www.ruairiglynn.co.uk/
http://www.kinetecture.com/research-question/


and then there are the books...
http://www.passagesthroughhinterlands.com/book/index.html

Interactive Environments – TU Delft

http://www.interactive-environments.nl/

“Throughout the course, three interdisciplinary groups of students supported by TU Delft researchers and guest teachers have designed and built three interactive lounge pavilions. The pavilions attract people to enter, facilitate relaxation and provide a refuge from daily chores.”

Interactive Environments Minor has been a full-time, semester-long project at TU Delft organized by the Faculty of Architecture - hyperBODY and Industrial Design and Engineering - ID-StudioLab, hosted by the Delft Science Centre. Throughout the course, three interdisciplinary groups of students supported by TU Delft researchers and guest teachers have designed and built three interactive lounge pavilions. The pavilions attract people to enter, facilitate relaxation and provide a refuge from daily chores. Each of these structures is a dynamic system, which communicates with its visitors across different modalities. The installations not only actively adapt to their users’ actions, but autonomously develop a will and behaviour of their own. In this way interactive architectural environments come to life, engaging their occupants in an unprecedented experience of a continuous dialogue with the occupied space.

ODYSSEY

SCAPE

GEN

medikidz launch

http://www.medikidz.com/home

Our mission: "To improve the health of children all over the world who are dealing with medical conditions by encouraging an understanding of what is happening inside of their bodies, how they can help themselves to feel better, and, fundamentally, to let them know that they are not alone."
from http://www.medikidzfoundation.org/about-us/
and also the launch of medikidz at Guy and St Thomas' on BBC

Marco Fausinato

from http://www.marcofusinato.com/projects/index.html

Marco Fusinato
Aetheric Plexus
2009
13200 watts white light, 105db white noise, Alloy tubing, Par can 56 lights, Double couplers, Lanbox LCM
DMX controller, Dimmer rack, DMX mp3 player, Powered speaker, Sensor, Extension leads, Shot bags.
880 x 410 x 230 cm
Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne



TEXT
Juliana Enberg, ‘After shock’, NEW 09 ex. Cat., Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2009

gotta love a new Michel Gondry clip

Mia Doi Todd "Open Your Heart" dir. Michel Gondry from Viewers Like You on Vimeo.

Penny Hagen. From OZCHI 09

Presentation on the changing nature of design and the new opportunities for participation in design enabled through social technologies - given at OZCHI Melbourne 2009. Full paper is published through the ACM Library.

The emphasis on participation in social technologies challenges some of our traditional assumptions about the role of users and designers in design. It also exposes some of the limitations and assumptions about design embedded in our traditional models and methods. Based on a review of emerging practice in industry and academia, this presentation provides an overview of four ways in which people are participating in design, that have emerged largely in response to, and as a result of, social technologies. By presenting this ‘lay of the land’, we seek to contribute to ongoing work on the nature of participation and design in the context of social technologies. We draw particular attention to the ways in which roles and responsibilities in design are being reassigned and redistributed. As traditional boundaries between design and use and designer and user dissolve, design is becoming more public. In the context of social technologies design is moving out into the wild

Dissolving Boundaries: social technologies and participation in design

View more presentations from penny hagen.

http://www.smallfire.co.nz/

Philips Simplicity Event: The ambient hospital room