Experience / Experiment: 1:1
Art Center College of Design, Fall, 2004
http://web-edu.artcenter.edu/estudio/
Units: 3.0
Staff: Michael Fox (mafox@odesco.net)
Lecture / Location: Monday, Friday 9-12, South Building

Reading 01 can be downloaded here:
http://kdg.mit.edu/Projects/pap05.html

Due Friday, Sep 17

Exercise_01: Contextual Understanding

Due Friday, Sep 17

The exercise will be assessed on the following criteria:

60% Research Content

30% Presentation

10% Timeliness

The point of this exercise is to understand and clarify contextual situations for potential applications of dynamic spatial environments.

An intelligent environment should really transcend the notion of enhancing everyday activities to creating spaces and objects that can extend everyday activities through doing things that we cannot do or that are very difficult or inconvenient to do.

Interactive systems introduce a new approach to architectural design where objects are conventionally static, use is often singular, and responsive adaptability is typically unexplored. We are concerned with the “tangible” and “physical”, and related to spatial “environments” in the broadest sense, with the goal of creating spaces and objects that can physically re-configure themselves to meet changing needs with respect to individual, social and environmental needs and the dynamics of space.

What we are attempting to define is that we have this space that is really smart, that understands the environment inside and outside and understands various data about the users including behavioral patterns but what is it doing; what is it physically doing to adapt to these changes?

You are each document three (3) situations from a similar* built project or projects where an interactive system could be applied. Document the situation or “problem” (in text and images) and clarify with justification, the potential application for an interactive system

*Refer to contextual class discussion: 09.13.2004