This book is about responsive architectures. The project is an exploration of the interconnectedness of what surrounds us. The focus of this collection is on a new generation of interactive systems within science, art and architecture that are based on constantly evolving relationships. Using a wide definition of architecture that includes both built and natural realms, we examine dynamic systems and environments of scales from molecules to cities. A responsive environment can be described as a networked structure that senses action within a field of attention and responds dynamically with programmed and designed logic. Focusing the issue of responsiveness more precisely within the field of architecture raises multiple questions: which parameters of such environments might a designer address in order to imaginatively employ their capacities for dynamic transform and interaction? These projects cast light on the subject of responsive architecture from diverse viewpoints derived from current architecture, science, and art practices. They examine the relation between a physical environment and its inhabitants and focus in particular on professional practice. How do responsive systems affect us? Scientific research, art and architecture come together in this multidisciplinary forum documenting the 2006 Subtle Technologies Festival of Art and Science. Subjects include electronic art and performance installations, research in cell structures and natural systems, and design of interactive buildings. Discussions include historical context and contemporary implications.

Responsive Architectures : Subtle Technologies

Arts & Photography

Philip Beesley

Sachiko Hirosue

Jim Ruxton

Marion Trankle

Camille Turner

Architecture

Riverside Architectural Press

This collection of original essays by international scholars, researchers and industry experts explores the emerging field of mobile experience design. Discussions are wide-ranging, addressing technological issues, such as GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and intelligent materials and garments. Designers, engineers and creators write about the potential for mobile platforms in cultural industries, architecture, engineering, industrial design, entertainment and education. Forty texts accompanied by numerous illustrations.

Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms

Martha Ladly

Riverside Architectural Pr

<p>The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can feel and care. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. The book contains essays by theorists and designers, extended photography, and detailed design documents of the evolving project. With contributions by Michelle Addington, Rachel Armstrong, William Elsworthy, Rob Gorbet, Eric Haldenby, Jonah Humphrey, Christian Joakim, Geoff Manaugh, Detlef Mertins, Neil Spiller, and Cary Wolfe. The Hylozoic Ground Project has been selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture. Previously announced as Responsive Envelopes: Hylozoic Soil</p>

Hylozoic Ground: Liminal Responsive Architecture

Pernilla Ohrstedt (Ed.)

Hayley Isaacs (Ed.)

Worldmaking as Techné: Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture outlines a practice that challenges the World and how it could be through a kind of future-making, and/or other world making, by creating alternate realities as artworks that are simultaneously ontological propositions. In simplified terms the concept of techné is concerned with the art and craft of making. In particular a kind of practice that embodies the enactment of theoretical approach that helps determine the significance of the work, how it was made, and why. By positioning worldmaking as a kind of techné, we seek to create a discourse of art making as an enframing of the world that results in the expression of ontological propositions through the creation of art-worlds. The volume focuses on the involvement of the techné of worldmaking in participatory art practice. Such practice can be found in all areas of art, however, under scrutiny for this particular book are: interactive, generative, and prosthetic art, architecture, and music practices that depend for their vitality and development on the participation of their observers. The book is organized into three sections: po(i)etic, machinic, and cybernetic, which explore the aesthetics, systems, methods, and ontological underpinnings of a worldmaking based practice. Each section contains historical texts alongside new texts. The texts were carefully chosen to highlight the integration of theory and practice in their approach. While the foundation of this worldmaking is deeply philosophical and rigorous in its approach, there is a need to connect this work to the World of our everyday experience. As we contemplate the issues of why we may want to make a world, we are confronted with the responsibilities of making the world as well.

Worldmaking As Techné: Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture

Félix Guattari

Heinz Von Foerster

Laura Beloff

Andrew Pickering

Sang Lee

Peter Blasser

James Coupe

Kathrine Elizabeth Johansson

Marcos Novak

Dan Overholt

Esben Poulsen

Chris Salter

Nicolas Schöffer

Edward Shanken

Graham Wakefield

History & Criticism

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