feedback

The studio engaged in the design and construction of feedback systems that mediated the relationship between architectural environments and their occupants. The studio explored the creation of new sensory relationships between people and place which build a sense of belonging to the larger community through the built environment. This investigation was animated by three conceptual concerns: site-specificity; sensory experience; and individuals’ connections to place. Students studied the psychological and social aspects of interaction and were involved in developing digital tools that translated human responses to the built environment into sensorial spatial effects.

The central concern of the studio involved the identification and understanding of modes of interaction and the subsequent development of feedback and translation devices that express, generate, materialise and embody attitudes, feelings, affects and dispositions as spatial and temporal atmospheres. To this end the students were introduced to a range of modes of interactive design. These included the analogue, the social and the digital; which were understood through the engagement with particular materials, techniques and technologies.