Responsive environments : defining our technologically-mediated relationship with space /
Allen Sayegh, Stefano Andreani.
- one EPUB e-book (70.9MB)
With the collaboration of the Harvard REAL Lab.
"The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences. These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments. Drawing from a 5-year design research collaboration between the REAL Lab at Harvard GSD and the University of Bergamo, this book unfolds the experiential facets of our technologically-mediated relationship with space in the fields of architecture, urbanism and art. The book attempts to describe what makes an environment "responsive" in the form of a design manifesto, introducing ten attributes or principles at both methodological and experiential levels- from technological longevity to creative glitches, from hacked perception to artifactural elegance. Critically articulated from the perspective of leading experts, scholars and professionals, the ideas explored in the manifesto are then unpacked through speculative urban visions and design concepts at different timeframes, contexts and scales ranging from smart artifacts to smart cities"--