Atelier Wunderkammer: a collaboration between BDes Interiors, BSc Digital Interaction and BSc Product, V&A Dundee and the GIDE International network. The project is a response to the recent Mobile Museum international workshop. Machine for Being is a 1:1 installation and working prototype which uses arduino programmed motion sensors to trigger servo motors causing the space change its geometry and react to the visitor’s presence.

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This questions the social behaviours, actions and landscape of our encounters with the museum. Wherever a human body is detected, the space deconstructs around you; offering visitors the experience of controlling the environment. 

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This architecture by activation examines the subtle choreography of body to building in the context of a museum and offers alternate ways of understanding our kinaesthetic encounters in architecture through interactive technologies. In the Machine for Being, your presence is your interaction. The body is an active player rather than passive receiver in a new museum experience.

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this project was also nominated and winner of the Best Live Project Award in the IE Progress Awards 2020.