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Masters Programme at the Bartlett UCL - MArch Design for Performance & Interaction

Head down to the Canary Wharf Summer Lights Festival from 21 June - 20 August where you can catch the public art work In...
23/06/2022

Head down to the Canary Wharf Summer Lights Festival from 21 June - 20 August where you can catch the public art work Infinity and Beyond created by our very own  & her partner .richman.9

Infinity and Beyond offers a layered and visually ambiguous experience of Canary Wharf’s Harbour Quay Gardens, presenting infinite reflections of adjacent buildings and multi-image patterns of the surroundings within each structure. Much like a kaleidoscope, each module is lined with reflective mirror, with holes cut in the surface. Simply place your head and shoulders inside the boxes to enjoy this immersive experience.

This installation consists of six free-standing triangular units. They stand at three different heights to accommodate a wide range of visitors, including children, adults, pushchairs, and wheelchair users.

More info at https://canarywharf.com/whats-on/summer-lights-jun-aug-2022/

20/06/2022

We are so pleased to announce graduate has been awarded honorary mention at the Ars Electronica’s Prix Ars 2022 in the Digital Communities category.

Jury Statement
"The imagery of a social structure—be it a community, society, or institution—makes us think that it cannot be destroyed once we build it. But a religion without people practicing the culture, a democracy without people going to elections, or a community without participation means that structures perish. Therefore, we cannot take any social or societal achievement for granted. Social life is a recurring process of creation and destruction. This installation speaks to this very fundamental idea. Moreover, it highlights the unruly role of powerful forces seeking to destroy institutions dear to us. But the piece also contains a hopeful message: Even if the foe is powerful, we should not give up. Instead, the people persistently maintaining, re-creating, and re-building what they hold dear can persevere."

Director, roboticist: Kachi Chan
Project developed at: , 
Project advisors: , , Phaedra Shanbaum
Research: .pat
Creative technologist: 

13/06/2022

Respoken by and is graduate project completed on our Masters in Design for Performance & Interaction asking the question Is there music behind the way we speak?
Respoken is an interactive installation that creates an experience from the user’s voice. A stage for self-expression and an invitation for intimacy manifesting the spirit in light and sound. The installation makes music from the way in which the user speaks, capturing the distinct tone, pitch fluctuations, rhythm, and timbre of our voices to create a symphony from vocal expression. Users can record speech over a microphone and listen to their words become music, in synchrony with light evolving around sound. Yet the experience is only as good as the story shared. The installation provides an opportunity to recall the experiences that shape our identity and vocalize them to listen to the music behind our words. Our respective memories are infused with personal meaning, and the way we express them carry the potential to create a personal soundtrack. The user’s individual expressiveness becomes the key and structure for personalized music; thus, every interaction is unique. The emitted sound and light interaction will depend on the content and length of the original recording. The repeated audio will mirror the length of the original input, but the sound will be completely different.

11/06/2022

Graduate project is a machine that uses sound and motion to convey the same narrative as a musical score or performance. It manifests the mechanics of musical emotion to generate and break musical conventions and expectations.
In this project, Kwun Ting Wong, Wanrong Lei, Shu-Yun Liu have chosen the emotional overload of suspense translated into unpredictable outcomes as the core of the experience. They visual effects, narrative and sound methods that are frequently used in suspense films to develop a sense of suspense to design an interactive musical performance narrative machine.

09/06/2022

Ecomorphs by is a graduate project of our Masters in Design for Performance & Interaction

In the forest, there is an expedition without a specified route. In between the trees and the subtle moss you can find mysterious glowing soft creatures. They are lively and enthusiastic, but also fragile. So they wish to be taken good care of. Audiences may slowly approach the inconspicuous corner of their existence, experiencing the uncanny and charming ambience. There will be a communication between living beings, something innocent and within reach. Noiseless and intangible.

Ecomorphs is an outdoor interactive installation made up of soft robots that are sensitive to their surrounding environment. The team modified 3D printer mechanisms to solder sheets of TPU sheets together into bespoke shapes that define the appearance and embodied performance of the soft robots. The installation utilises a variety of integrated sensing approaches that regulate air pressure inside the robot, detect human gestures, human visual attention, and observers movement around the work. This data is combined to choreograph the motion of the robots mysteriously living deep in a dark forest.

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31/05/2022

is a platform for local communities to preserve and share their stories and memories in time and space. It was created by graduates while studying their Masters in Design for Performance and Interaction based situated beside Hackney Wick in East London

The project is a community-oriented felt archive highlighting the sensorial exploratory feel of memory.
It consists of a physical interactive platform with an audio-scape composed of interviews the team conducted. The platform itself is made up of physical materials that reflect the physical history of the locality at hand. Users can explore the community’s history through a physical experience of it.
is accompanied by a digital platform which documents the growing archive and makes it accessible to all. Our first collaborator is Hackney Wick, a community in East London endangered by gentrification and re-development campaigns. Meant to serve as a resource for local communities eventually globally, seeks to provide an alternative way of remembering, feeling, and interacting with the world and people around us.
Ultimately, will expand to different communities and grow to be a large-scale archive of local communities. will serve as a resource for communities to learn from each other and help preserve and share local stories and histories on a global scale.

09/05/2022

Exploring pneumatic architecture and collective performance, PneumaCycle questions how large-scale events requiring large energy resources, could be powered by public participation. Could air captured by audience motion be transformed into the performance of kinetic architecture?

The development process consisted of intensive research in multiple areas including the design of a cycle pump system, testing of a variety of air-actuation systems, sensors and interfaces. The final outcome is an architectural proposal and a 1:10 working model that invites the public to generate power that activates a soft robotic structure.

The proposal imagines a future for event design where audience members are fully immersed in the production of a collective performance powered by their own bodies.

Researchers: Yuting Chen .chenn & Ting-yun Wu .wu_design

Supervisors: Ruairi Glynn & Parker Heyl
Project developed at

Soundtrack design: Tsu-Kuang Hsieh, Minds of Mechanics

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Watch todays Human Architecture Interaction Design Conference where IALab Director Ruairi Glynn will be giving the closi...
29/04/2022

Watch todays Human Architecture Interaction Design Conference where IALab Director Ruairi Glynn will be giving the closing keynote. Conference is live-streamed here http://live.bilibili.com/24886680

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