Interactive Architecture - Ruiari Glynn

Fun projects using interaction from Ruiari Glynn who said that "interaction evolved playing with things, people and objects".

He showed us Rodney Brook's Six Legged Robot that learnt to walk in 1989.

Inks - Thermochromic

Thermochromic inks are inks that change colour with a change in temperature.  CTI Inks use 3 different types, one that responds to cold temperature, body temperature and a hot temperature.

They are based in US and they have some interesting products for printing.  

Their website design is fun too.

Tom Igoe website

Tom Igoe's website is worth checking, so many ideas and many of them fun too.

I like his blog too and he lists core77's site which I like too.

Processing

Programming the arduino using processing...WOW

Di Mainstone talk

Di Mainstone, interactive fashion designer, gave a presentation about fashion that playfully explores human behaviour with woven soft-technologies into a fashion aesthetic.

• She designed a dress that can pick up on gestures,
  
• Outfits that are embedded with sensors to send messages through clothes

Her inspiration for this project - 

• what could nitinol, the material, do?
  
• re-defining the silhouette/figure
  
• stories - using narratives
  
• architecture for inspiration.
  

Colour Exercise from Drawing Workshop

Smart Materials

"Smart Materials in architecture, interior architecture and design" by Axel Ritter.  

This is a fantastic book with so many different types of inspiring materials that they are hard to comprehend let alone think about how to use.  Hopefully I will be able to imagine how to use some of them as they are amazing.

Ang Lee's film: Lust, Caution

A very dramatic spy film set in Hong Kong and Shanghai during WWII.  It's a very different type of film to Brokeback Mountain which is also directed by Ang Lee, but just as emotional and sad.

"Lust, Caution" has been adapted from a short story by Eileen Chang, the real title in Mandarin is "Se jie" with Tony Leung in the lead role.

Winter Scene