PERCEPTUAL ECOLOGIES 2011 SYMPHONY |
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INFOPerceptual Ecologies is a spatial experiment which utilize responsive design strategies to mobilize living relations between occupants and environments. “Our ability to sense and understand a changing environment is central in the process of well judged actions and constitutes the basis for our everyday life. Through each perceptual aperture we decode environmental changes and as a collective mass, subjects mobilize into groups to push with greater force where needed. In the everyday life we find multiple dependencies to environment, nature, transport systems, internet connections, mobile phones, food distribution, family and friends – as this list grow we tend to forget the very basis for society – your neighbor.“ Perceptual Ecologies is a work that explores how mediated environments can have the capacity to mobilize social groups beyond the border of friendship, and encourage visitors to act within responsive soundscapes. Each agent is a sensible instrument with its own context, and can be triggered by actively sensed proximal motions. When disturbed, agents send messages to their neighbors; these simple communications cause global behaviors to occur. When no motion is detected in the system, a generative soundscape performs a slow evolution of new behaviours. This organization leaves very fragile dependencies between the agents in the system and the occupants entering the system’s domain. Visitors can synchronize their behaviors – for example, as a collective they would have to agree to stand still. Synchronized actions among the occupants will cause the system to stabilize into temporal auditive and visual feedback patterns. |
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