Our relationship to the built environment is becoming increasingly reliant on pervasive digital technology and decreasingly reliant on the physical embodiment of place. The digital devices we append to our bodies, embed in our spaces, and lay as ubiquitous infrastructure are becoming the interface that mediates our interactions with the world around us. THIS COULD GET WEIRD examines the value of reclaiming this interface as an architectural territory. The lecture argues for integrating a transdiciplinary and anti-disciplinary ethos into the conservative domain of Architecture, and discusses the messiness that would consequentially ensue. Lastly, the lecture demonstrates current design research that focuses on the interface as a primary facilitator for interstitial interactions between digital and analog datums.
Read Moreintroduction to physical computing arduino workshop @ FIU SOA
MADLAB was invited to lead a 3 day intensive workshop in physical computing for Florida International University’s School of Architecture. Over 22 hours, 18 architecture students and 3 professors learned how to translate physical input into meaningful embedded interaction with the built environment. The workshop introduced the Arduino prototyping platform, as well as techniques in soldering, electronics, programming, hacking, and debugging. The participants left with the knowledge to choreograph kinetic systems using sensors and actuators for affective interaction.
Read Moreproject 41 Invited critic @ FIU SOA
MADLAB will be traveling to Miami, FL this July as an invited critic for project 41: a tale of cities … that share one street. Presentations will review the nomadic design studio’s investigations into novel techniques in urban documentation and speculative mobile infrastructure. Project 41 is coordinated studio between the Department of Urban Speculation at the University of Illinois Chicago, Andrew SantaLucia, and Malik Benjamin for Florida International University’s 4th Year Accelerated Masters Architecture Studio.
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