The dress room

Abstract

What does it entail to be embraced by a space that responds to your actions? What kind of relations can we create between the active body and the active space? What qualities does the responsivity have for creating certain experiences of a space? Through the Dress Room, I begin to explore the qualities of responsive spaces and embodied interaction. The Dress Room is a white cube that responds to the body's movements over the floor. The walls move, the room collapses or expands. I rely on a dancer to open up this experience. The outcome suggests that interacting with responsive environments can help create a sense of intimacy as well as motivate our motions within the space.

Deconstructivist Interaction Design: Interrogating Expression and Form

“…Strangers sitting on a public bench unconsciously slip closer as the bench slowly changes its shape [13]. A whole room responds to the movements of a person by moving, collapsing, or expanding [22]. A lightbulb throws a shadow on a wall and all of a sudden the shadow grows wings and starts to fly [15].…”