Interactive Design: Towards a Responsive Environment

Published by Birkhäuser 2024

Interactive Design

Towards a Responsive Environment

Edited by: Behnaz Farahi and Neil Leach

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035626896

Overview
Contents

About this book

Designers and forward thinkers in the field of interactive design share their reflections and show examples of different models of a responsive future environment.

Interactive design has exploded in recent years with a number of inspiring projects that have opened up a new field of research and design.

This book brings together some of the most prominent actors and thinkers in the field of interactive design, with theoretical articles highlighting different aspects of this work and describing them through current practices and projects.

Supplemented with numerous illustrations, this book offers an overview of the emergence of interactive design and architecture based on the theory of cybernetics. At the same time, it introduces models of interactivity ranging from dynamic and shapechanging materials to wearables, architecture, and transdisciplinary and alternative design methods.

History of the development of interactive design
Overview of the state of the art and its possibilities
Models of interactivity in theory and practice

Author / Editor information

Editors

Behnaz Farahi is a designer, creative technologist and critical maker. Trained as an architect, she explores how to foster an empathetic relationship between the human body and the surrounding space through the implementation of emerging technologies. Her work addresses issues such as feminism, emotion, bodily perception and social interaction. She specializes in computational design, interactive technologies, additive manufacturing and digital fabrication technologies. Farahi has won several awards including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Digital Design Award, Fast Company Innovation By Design Linda Tischler Award, World Technology Award (WTN). She has received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Design, California State University, Long Beach.

Neil Leach is an architect, curator and writer. His research interests fall broadly into two fields, critical theory and digital design. In the field of critical theory, he has published many monographs and edited volumes, dealing largely with the impact of importing theoretical tools from critical theory into an architectural arena. He has taught at numerous international universities including Columbia GSAPP, Dessau Institute of Architecture, IaaC, London Consortium, Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, University of Bath. Neil Leach is currently Visiting Professor at Harvard University GSD, Professor at the European Graduate School, Gao Feng Professor at Tongji University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California.

Contributing authors and interviewees

Philip Beesley, Digital I/O, Behnaz Farahi, Michael Fox, John Frazer, Mona Ghandi, Ruairi Glynn, Usman Haque, Harshika Jain, Yasuaki Kakehi, Asif Khan, Kimchi and Chips , Manuel Kretzer, LAb[au], Neil Leach, Elyne Legarnisson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Minimaforms, MIT Media Laboratory, Güvenç Özel, Lisa Park, Gordon Pask, Dan Roosegaarde, Jenny Sabin, F. Myles Sciotto, SOFTlab, teamLab, Skylar Tibbits, Lining Yao, Weidi Zhang

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Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
A Brief History of Interactive Architecture Behnaz Farahi and Neil Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Part I: From Cybernetics to Interactive Design
The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics Gordon Pask Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
From Cybernetics to Interactive Design Neil Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Architecture, Interaction, Systems Usman Haque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Adaption: Towards a Theory of Interactivity Neil Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Projects
A teamLabPlanetsTOKYO, teamLab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
B Border Tuner, Lozano-Hemmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
C Epiphyte Chamber, Beesley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
D Cerebral Hut, Özel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Part II: New Kinds of Interaction
Fragile Architecture: Notes for a New Model of Interaction Philip Beesley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
From Cybernetics to Affective Computing in Design Behnaz Farahi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Neurospace Mona Ghandi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Balance, Body Awareness, and Movement in Interactive Experiences Elyne Legarnisson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Projects
A Ada, Sabin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
B Mirror Mirror, SOFTlab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
C Touch, LAb[au] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
D Eunoia, Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Part III: Material Interactivities
Active Matter Behnaz Farahi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Activating the Physical Toward Material Experience Design Yasuaki Kakehi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Architected Morphing Matter: The Confluence of Geometry and Hidden Forces Lining Yao and Harshika Jain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Tomorrowland Manuel Kretzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Projects
A Glowing Nature, Roosegaarde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
B bioLogic, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
C Halo, Kimchi and Chips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
D Caress of the Gaze, Farahi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Part IV: Transdisciplinary Approaches
Cyberphysical Architecture in the Era of Digital Eclecticism: Transdisciplinarity and Conflation of Technological Milieus Güvenç Özel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
A New Assemblage: Interactive Art Experiences of a Human-Machine Reality Weidi Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Trans-Disciplinary Interactions Ruairi Glynn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Demystification: The Evolving Design Process of Interactive Architecture Michael Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Projects
A MegaFaces, Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
B Neuro-Architectures, Sciotto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
C Remnant, DigitalIO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
D Petting Zoo, Minimaforms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Conclusion
By Way of Conclusion, we Have a Panel Discussion Between Philip Beesley (PB), Guvenc Ozel (GO), and Ruairi Glynn (RG) Led by Behnaz Farahi (BF) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Image Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: All practitioners from the design professions, designers and interested individuals
Pages
- Main content: 241
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 150
Keywords: Interactive design; sensory future; sensory design; responsive design; sensory enviroment; responsive enviroment; design future; interactive art; sensory art; responsive art; responsive fashio; sensory fashion; intelligent fashion; Philip Beesley; Iris van Herpen; responsive architecture; sensory architecture; smart architecture; smart design; Neil Leach; Behnaz Farahi; digitalization; digital enviroment

eBook

Published: November 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783035626896

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Published: November 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783035626889