Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design - Softcover

Lucy Bullivant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851774815 ISBN 13: 9781851774814

Publisher: V&A Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Now published in a new, larger format, the latest title in the "V&A Contemporary" series explores the increasing use of experimental interactive design in our living and working environments. Spaces that interact with the people who use them or pass through them have in a very short time become ubiquitous. From an installation in a London shopping centre that registers the presence of passers-by with patterns of coloured light and sound, to an interactive artwork in the boardroom of the TV channel Five, the projects featured in this book engage with our wishes and bodily sensations, fusing inventive design with interactive media and technologies.

About this title

About the Author

Lucy Bullivant Hon FRIBA is an architecture and design curator, critic, author and advisor born in London to architect parents who instilled a passion in her for the discipline she hasn't grown out of yet. Through her international exhibitions, conferences and publishing projects, public speaking and consultancy work she has consistently advocated higher design standards and experimental multidisciplinary strategies to help counter the negative effects of globalisation.

From the Back Cover

Published in a new, larger format, the latest title in the V&A Contemporary series looks at ground-breaking interior design, art and architecture.

Responsive environments - spaces interacting with people who use them, pass through them or by them - have come to underpin our living and working surroundings. While CCTV and personal devices such as the iPod are now ubiquitous, creative fusions of design and embedded technologies are also appearing in museums, galleries and urban places.

Responsive Environments tells the story of how an exclusive selection of spatial interactive designs came into being amidst a cultural context of growing multidisciplinary activity in art, architecture and design during the last fifteen years. This unique account draws on the author's interviews with the designers, architects and artists featured, and shed fresh light on the way in which new technologies are being harnessed as well as the experiential effects of installations.

From the Inside Flap

Design is an essential component of everyday life, in ways that are both apparent and imperceptible. But who are the authors of the things that surround us? What drives the thinking behind the development of new products? From cutting edge experimentation to the restyling of mass market goods, designers leave their imprint in a diversity of ways. They shape the objects with which we furnish our homes, the tools with which we communicate and the environments in which we live, work and play.

The V&A has played a role at the heart of design culture since it was founded in 1852. Part of its mission was a commitment to the understanding of contemporary design, and this mission remains true today. The V&A now embraces all aspects of design in contemporary life, from fashion, graphics, photography and digital media to craft, architecture and product design.

The V&A Contemporary series explores the designer's role in shaping products of all kinds - from the one-off to the mass produced, from objects in three dimensiosn to digital environments. The series celebrates creativity and diversity in design now, highlighting key debates and practices, and confronting us with questions about the future of our designed world. Each title takes a critical and informed look at a particular field, built around interviews with designers and commentaries on selected products and projects. We hope these studies encourage us all- designers and consumers alike - to look with fresh insight at the objects and images around us.

Jane Pavitt, V&A Contemporary Series Editor

Edition details

• Publisher: V&A Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1851774815
• ISBN 13: 9781851774814
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128