ABSTRACT
Our research is premised on the notion that every building, city and landscape component can be – and will be – equipped with communicative and computational capacities. The migration of computing from dedicated appliances to physical environments directly empowers architecture as a transformative agent. The fact that objects can now sense, think, act and communicate with the help of embedded technology is opening up the potential for an architecture that is more closely aligned with the networked dynamics of living systems – a sentient architecture. Our projects establish an interdisciplinary platform involving artists, designers, scientists and engineers spanning different institutions and continents in a technological approach to spatial problems that is attuned to the dynamics of living systems. The collective aim is to develop from the collaborative experiments a digitally enhanced architecture that is well-equipped to handle persistent and emerging challenges in building a healthy and sustainable environment.
