production

The environments of the t*series are immersive hybrid realities, or responsive 'play spaces'. They are designed for full-body interaction of human participants with ‘irreal’ responsive worlds.

TGarden is a responsive environment, inspired by calligraphy and scrying. In TGarden, the players' gestures are being transformed into generative computer graphics and digital soundscapes, leaving marks and traces in much the same way as a calligrapher would with brushes and ink.

The word txOom is an amalgam of ‘texture’ and ‘bloom’. As a part of txOom, we produced two environments which were thick, malleable and layered as a texture, elegant and responsive as a bloom.

Lyt_A is an installation, an instrument and a translation medium in one. It is a mechatronic, semi-flexible structure that can transmit haptic information on a distance: when the structure is touched on one site, the touch will be visible and touchable on another.

At FoAM, we produce interactive, engaging social experiences. A production involves an iterative process of design, development and facilitation of these experiences. They are produced in transdisciplinary teams, where every member of the team is considered creative person, whether they are software developers, physicists, gardeners, psychologists, or artists. Productions are acts of collaborative creation. Taking this a step further, our productions are designed to involve their visitors, users and players as pro-active participants able to shape their own experience.

trg is a responsive environment shaped by four fundamental forces, made apparent on the human scale; the fictional equivalent of gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear interaction. It unfolds, expands and curls based on the energy levels within its perimeters.

groWorld's 'sym' trajectory is looking at plants as organisational principles for the culture of the 21st century. It is about transforming cultural experiences, informed and inspired by biological and ecological systems.

The groWorld initiative is FoAM's interstice between ecology, culture and technology. It brings together three ‘forces’ capable of transforming the world on human and ecological scale: design, permaculture and technology. These three strands of inquiry inform and support each other, aiming to forge new symbiotic relationships between the post-industrial human societies and the rest of the Earth:

{sym} works on ecologically inspired, biomimetic and biomorphic, eco-scale design (from clothing and shelter, to public space and media).