Category: Interactive Architecture

Designer/Artist: Usman Haque

Artworks/Designworks

  • Burble
  • Control.Burble.Remote
  • Primal Source
  • Reconfigurable House 2.0
  • Sky Ear
  • Urban Constellations

Papers

  • Notes on the Design of Participatory Systems – for the City or for the Planet, in Habitar [ PDF, English ] [ PDF, Spanish ] June 2010
    Cooperation is difficult. Even when everybody agrees on an end goal, and even when everybody agrees on what is needed to achieve that end goal, it does not mean that everyone (or even anyone) will be able to take the first step, which is the most important step. Yet, while individualistic behaviour within a group results in short term benefit for the individual, competition between groups (anecdotally) favours those that have more altruistic individuals. This paper discusses the paradoxical structures of collaboration and ways that the paradoxes can be harnessed, illustrated occasionally with concrete, though anecdotal, examples. It is based on no research other than direct experience in trying to build participatory systems (see www.haque.co.uk).
  • Portholes & plumbing: how AR erases boundaries between ‘physical’ & ‘virtual’, Position Paper for W3C Workshop: Augmented Reality on the Web, Christopher Burman & Usman Haque [ PDF ] June 2010
    In this paper we make the case that future ‘augmented reality’ standards should focus on facilitating communications between disparate realities rather than defining how, when or where they are experienced and that standards should be designed expressly to encourage lateral approaches in reality design. In this context, we provide a brief overview of Pachube.com, a web service for storing and sharing sensor, energy and environmental data and the augmented reality application Porthole that helps people make sense of that data.

Digital Ground, Malcolm McCullough, 2004

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Expectations
    • 1 Interactive Futures
    • 2 Embodied Predispositions
    • 3 Habitual Contexts
  • Part II: Technologies
    • 4 Embedded Gear
    • 5 Location Models
    • 6 Situated Types
      • Typology(of  situated interactions)
      • fig 6.2 One set of situational types
        • at work
          • 1. Deliberating (places for thinking)
          • 2. Presenting (places for speaking to groups)
          • 3. Collaborating (places for working within groups)
          • 4. Dealing (places for negotiating)
          • 5. Documenting (places for reference resources)
          • 6. Officiating (places for institutions to serve their constituencies)
          • 7. Crafting (places for skilled practice)
          • 8. Associating (places where businesses form ecologies)
          • 9. Learning (places for experiments and explanations)
          • 10. Cultivating (places for stewardship)
          • 11. Watching (places for monitoring)
        • at home
          • 12. Sheltering (places with comfortable climate)
          • 13. Recharging (places for maintaining the body)
          • 14. Idling (restful places for watching the world go by)
          • 15. Confining (places to be held in)
          • 16. Servicing (places with local support networks)
          • 17. Meeting (places where services flow incrementally)
        • on the town
          • 18. Eating, drinking, talking (places for socializing)
          • 19. Gathering (places to meet)
          • 20. Cruising (places for seeing and being seen)
          • 21. Belonging (places for insiders)
          • 22. Shopping (places for recreational retailing)
          • 23. Sporting (places for embodied play)
          • 24. Attending (places for cultural productions)
          • 25. Commemorating (places for ritual)
        • on the road
          • 26. Gazing/ touring (places to visit)
          • 27. Hoteling (places to be at home away from home)
          • 28. Adventuring (places for embodied challenge)
          • 29. Driving (car as place)
          • 30. Walking (places at human scale)
  • Part III: Practices
    • 7 Designing Interactions
    • 8 Grounding Places
      • Why Ground?
      • Place and Space pp175
        • Yi-Fu-Tuan: “Space is movement, place is rest”/ Space is the anxiety of global indifference; place is the comfort of local malleability
        • Architectural phenomenologist Norberg-Schulz “Space is alienation; place is identification
        • Urban planner Edward Relph “Space is an ordering of understanding; place is an ordering of experience“
      • Place and Placelessness
      • Place and Community p181
        • 1
        • city walls
        • rusticated
        • 2
        • Edward Relph, place and placelessness. 1976
          • “Places are defined less by unique locations, landscape, and communities than by the focusing of experiences and intention onto particular settings”.p141
        • thus while we can speak of the identity of a place, we must also admit identification with a place.
        • Space lies outside the walls, or outside the social sphere, but the experiences of place occur inside these seen and unseen boundaries.

      • High-Tech Nomads
      • Service Ecologies p186
      • Getting into Place: Architecture, Interaction, and Ground
    • 9 Accumulating Value
      • Value Emerges from Interactions
      • Value Itself
      • Utilitarian Value
      • Economism and Placelessness
      • Expanding the Measures
      • Context as Capital
      • Value as Impetus
  • Part IV: Epilogue
    • 10 Going Native
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • References

Metamorphosis, Philips Design Probes, 2010

Philips Design’s latest Design Probe ‘Metamorphosis’ explores how we have become separated from the natural world, both in terms of our surroundings and how we perceive and manage our time.

http://www.design.philips.com/sites/philipsdesign/about/design/designnews/newvaluebydesign/june2010/metamorphosis.page

4dspace: Interactive Architecture, Lucy Bullivant, 2005

In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. ‘Smart’ design was once regarded as the preserve of museum exhibits or Jumbotrom advertising screens, but ‘multi-mediated’ interactive design has started entering into every domain of public and private life as a spatial medium, interactive architecture is revolutionising and reinventing our work, leisure and domestic spaces.

Susane Seitinger’s research

  • The researcher’s main page
  • LightBridge, May 2011
    • (in Video(youtube), around 4min, she describes the system and mentioned opensource SW to support media facade programming)
  • Liberated pixels :alternative narratives for lighting future cities, 2010
    • PhD Dissertation
    • Light Bodies
      • Susane Seitingerの博士での研究のプロジェクト３つのうちの一つが、ランタン（日本でいえば、夜間の外出時にもちあるいた手持ち提灯）の歴史をふまえた個人用の、センサーによって与えられた刺激に反応する光のオブジェクトでした。クラシックのコンサートやジャズバーで複数を置いて場所の演出に利用した例が論文で示されています。Seitingerの研究のポイントの一つが、既存のインフラから光を自由にするための技術なのですが、ガス灯という形で社会インフラになる前の、個人が小型のランタンを持ち、または玄関前に自分で設置し、管理していた光の集合しかなかった時代の光のありかた
  • Urban Pixels
    • Here (MIT Labcast)she explains basic concept of ‘Urban Pixels’ together with her adviser William Michael
  • Light Body
    • in Shigeru Kobayashi’s ‘Prototyping Lab’, pp20
      • we asked how we might engage people in more actively shaping the lightscapes which surround them.