Thomas Carpentier’s “The Measures of Man”

Thomas Carpentier is an architect interested into uses, rituals, ergonomics, body interactions, subversion as design process and communication strategies. The project “Measure(s) of Man: Architects’ Data Add-on” provides a new version of the Architects’ Data by Ernst Neufert, … Read More

Towards a new symbiosis – Gilberto Esparza

Gilberto Esparza (born in 1975; lives and works in Mexico) is known for building autonomous robots that can survive in urban space, by stealing the energy that generates the city. On finding publications about research projects using microbial fuel cell, he was immediately … Read More

Learning as a defining element of Artificial Intelligence

For more than 50 years, robotics and scientists have put their effort into developing artificial intelligence, and research into AI has been done to a very high level. However, intelligence has always been one of those concepts that is very … Read More

Codes in Wayang Kulit Puppet

Wayang Kulit or Indonesian traditional shadow puppetry is an ancient form of narrative that utilises light and shadow. This performance shows the projection of flat leather shadow puppet on white screen from behind. Then the master puppeteer called Dhalang … Read More

The Rules of Games and Spaces

The essence of ‘games’ lies in a person’s immersion in play subject to rules. Immersion implies a complete and, more importantly, willing absorption in the activity. The difference between ‘play’ and ‘playing games’ is the presence of rules. All games … Read More

Sound & Sensing

The 21st century has begun with an explosion of new tools, technologies and methods, as well as a mounting catalogue of challenges facing the designer. (Sheil, B.,2014)

The development of sensing technologies and computation provides designers and architects … Read More

Performing SCARA Robots

Can industrial robots perform elegant and improvisational choreography? Yes! I’ve been looking specifically at SCARA robot mechanisms and exploring the relationship between SCARA’s motion and contemporary dance in space during studies at IALab.

The acronym SCARA stands for Selective Compliance … Read More

Creating a virtual/physical space

“Marling” by Usman Haque, leaves me a profound impression. People play with their voice. The voice of citizens creates a compelling space which is between virtual and physical. Have a look here.

Visual Motion Perception as a discipline can certainly … Read More

Polymelia

The Polymelia Project considers the human body as an assemblage; a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction. We think of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate, so … Read More

Trespass

Trespass is the act of entering a space without permission, manipulating boundaries by either breaking through, shifting or avoiding them. The Trespass Project explores the most powerful and empathetic of human interactions – touch – and the complex aesthetic responses … Read More

Digital Notation as a Tool of Thought

Designing a tool has been a constant influence in the way we think. In the last 10 years, this phenomenon is uniquely shared on the crossovers of Architecture and Dance choreography, where reciprocal exchanges of common words regarding the body, geometry … Read More

The Captaincy of the ”Dymaxegrity” – “Bucky” Fuller

The geodesic sphere, originally invented by engineers of Carl Zeiss in 1928, and reinvented and popularized 20 years later by R. Buckminster Fuller, with all the connotations and associations that it carries of a “model of the Earth”, is what … Read More

Orbital Thresholds

A site specific installation for the UCL north Observatory, Orbital Thresholds is inspired by the mechanical movement of the Orrery. A tradition of exquisite kinetic models that describe astronomical orbits. A fascination with the science of visual spatial-perception has led … Read More

Designing a Bio-tensegrity Exoskeleton

What is the best way to build an exoskeleton for the human body? In the Lab we’ve been looking at the biomechanics of human body, trying to find a structure to “upgrade” human action capabilities and extend perception too.

Biotensegrity … Read More

Uncanny Prosthetics

Uncanny Prosthetics: A Survey through J. Stuart Blackton’s short movie ‘The Thieving Hand’

“Artificial limbs do not disrupt amputees’ bodies, but rather reinforce our publicity perceived normalcy and humanity. Artificial limbs and prostheses only disrupt what is commonly considered to … Read More

From Domestic Plants to Cyber Gardens

Why do we keep plants at home? It may seem that the practice of plant keeping lacks significance because we have domesticated animals to the point where they became part of the family, but plants are still viewed as stationary pets. … Read More

myCup

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and their long-standing arts partner Create London commissioned the Interactive Architecture Lab to build an Installation that reflects on our personal and collective waste streams. Suspended at their London corporate headquarters at No. 2 … Read More

Kinetica Art Fair 2014

We’ve had a fantastic few days at the Kinetica Art Fair held at the Truman Brewery –  part of the Frieze London art fair 2014. Kinetica featured over 50 exhibitors, as well as a number of performance pieces. With our … Read More