Przemek Jaworski and I are going to lead the workshop cluster “Interacting with the City” in SmartGeometry 2011 following the success of last year’s workshop cluster, Parametrics and Physical Interactions in SmartGeometry 2010, which produced interesting prototypes including: Bioclimactic skin, TweetForm, Urban simulation table, Occupant motion tracker, Rapid Coordination Table, Space Scanner, andResponsive Media Facade.
This year we will still do interactivity with physical and digital models, but mainly using tangible tables and Microsoft Kinect (a new controller for Xbox 360 which is not a controller at all, as everything is based on gestural interactions). Our cluster is one of the 10 clusters selected from 46 submissions (less than 25% acceptance rate).
Interacting with the City cluster in SmartGeometry 2011 aims to create tangible models of the city ‘in action’, using historical or real-time data. Using Web 2.0 technology, Processing, tangible interactions, projections, and digital modeling and fabrication, physical and digital models will be set up to enable visualisation and tangible interaction with the data. The use of data from Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, and various data sources from cities and public websites will be investigated. The goal of the cluster is to explore a new kind of design collaboration informed by real world data.
The cluster will create a generic visual environment for interactive and collaborative design in which tangible and gestural interactions play an important role. The use of tangible tables, Microsoft Kinect sensor and projections in the workshop environment and out at the city streets will be explored. Outcomes may include graphical, digital and physical representations of data, models on tangible tables, 3D model of a building in a city informed by public data, and interactive installations.
UbiMash code library will also be utilized to plug into online data sources and manage data transfer between the interactive installations and 3D modelling.
Don’t miss out! Apply now! Applications to attend SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop will close on 31st January 2011.
As a reminder of the fun we had in 2010, watch this:
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