ÍCHNI: DEVICES FOR A JOYFUL ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Can architecture prompt the body into more complex actions? An active body is a joyful body, and our sedentary behaviors are inhibiting the delightful encounters of spaces. Architecture should, in fact, inspire active and engaging experiences.

Íchni is a playful exploration into how spatial devices can increase the body’s potential to act through the use of interactive technology; an investigation in generating affective feedback loops between surrounding objects and the body through a physical-digital system. Through developing “choreographic devices” — playable structures embedded with physical sensors —and a virtual projection overlay, the physical forces of movements are captured as data points, then translated and projected back into the environment, heightening the awareness of our actions to affect the manner in which we move through a generative environment.

Keywords

Space / Movement / Affective Feedback / Physical Sensors / Virtual Projection / Interaction / Technology

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

2019 Higher Education Press