Living Architecture STEAM Kits, User Experience Interfaces, and Folio Publications

Transforming Architecture: Pluripotent and Quasigeostrophic Space is an interdisciplinary research program investigating new materials, tools, methods and frameworks in the field of living responsive architecture, an emerging sub-discipline of architecture that focuses on how buildings respond to their occupants. Part of that work involves creating and disseminating kits and publications to help individuals access and understand living architecture. By building and creating interactive environments with their own hands, the potential of these new systems can be truly developed and disseminated. In this project, two interns will work on refining the physical and electronic structure for these kits, as well as the development of intuitive software interfaces to make it easier to design and control them. This allows Riverside Architectural Press to translate innovative research from experts and engage with a wider audience that includes researchers, artists, and designers. Creation of a kit for interactive architecture allows for the distillation of key LASG concepts into a digestible learning tool for STEAM education. By drawing from principles of Open Source, the publications and kit engages students and the community, creating a critical discourse through making and design research that will be available to all Canadians.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rob Gorbet;Philip Beesley;Philip - dupe Beesley

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Partner:

Riverside Architectural Press

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

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