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Alice in
Technoland
At their most supernatural, interactive design environments can have a
transformative effect. They take the visitor to somewhere else. By actively
involving the public they are both porous and responsive, beckoning us like
the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland to enter and participate in another world.
Here Lucy Bullivant kicks off her introduction to this issue of AD by looking
at an installation designed by Daan Roosegaarde for the Netherlands Media
Art Institute in Amsterdam which epitomises this approach.
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Mirrorspace installed on an advertising hoarding in the street, showing two participants looking into each others faces
and the image sensors in the centre.
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Usman Haque, Moody Mushroom Floor, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, 1996
This early work of Haques was a field of anthropomorphically defined mushrooms that developed a range of moods and aspirations
in response to the ways in which visitors reacted to their outputs in the form of different lights, sounds and smells emitted at intervals.
Assigned pet names including spoilt brat, sullen and capricious, the responsive mushrooms tested out a range of behaviours on
visitors to try to achieve their individual goal before settling on the most effective one matching their ascribed personality.
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