Responsive Environments
An installation studying how architectural surfaces can respond to human presence and rhythm.
Responsive Environments treats architectural surfaces as an interactive medium, studying how spaces can sense and gently respond to the people within them.
What qualities of environmental response feel supportive rather than surveillant to the people inhabiting a space?
Through installation-based research we prototyped sensing surfaces and studied people’s emotional and behavioural responses.
A full-scale installation combined presence sensing with modulated light and sound, observed across many visitors.
A framework describing the felt qualities of responsive space and design cautions around agency and trust.
Karyafe Lab, Department of Design, IIT Kanpur — 2024
For enquiries about this project, contact Karyafe Lab at karyafe@iitk.ac.in.