Interactive Environments Minor TU Delft 2022

The Interactive Environments Workshop was a week-long collaboration between the Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) and students at TUDelft from various disciplines enrolled in the Interactive Environments Minor. Held at TUDelft Science Centre, the workshop focused on introducing students to methods used by the LASG in creating responsive environments by exploring fabrication, digital twin approaches and behaviour programming. The workshop was preceded by preparatory talks and instructional folios as well as an introductory lecture by Philip Beesley. Students were given access to LASG’s library of geometric scaffolding, actuation hardware, and behaviour programming in order to explore and apply to their own projects.

In anticipation for further collaborations with TUDelft’s Interactive Environments Minor program, the workshop culminated in the creation of Poietic Veil, a prototype testbed for communication between the TUDelft’s Connected Interaction Kit and LASG’s own behaviour programming. Poietic Veil serves as a foundation for a new protocol of intercommunication between differing languages used in the programming of responsive environments. Building on these exchanges, LASG and TUDelft envisions a future permanent testbed that will be used for ongoing research and curriculum development around responsive, sentient architecture.

More information about TUDelft’s Interactive Environments Minor can be found here: https://interactive-environments.nl/