Interactive Design: Towards a Responsive Environment

Interactive design has exploded in recent years with a number of inspiring projects that have opened up a new field of research and design. This book brings together some of the most prominent actors and thinkers in the field of interactive design, with theoretical articles highlighting different aspects of this work and describing them through current practices and projects. Supplemented with numerous illustrations, Interactive Design offers an overview of the emergence of interactive design and architecture based on the theory of cybernetics. At the same time, it introduces models of interactivity ranging from dynamic and shapechanging materials to wearables, architecture, and transdisciplinary and alternative design methods. Includes a history of the development of interactive design, an overview of the state of the art and its possibilities, and models of interactivity in theory and practice. Contributors include Philip Beesley, Digital I/O, Behnaz Farahi, Michael Fox, John Frazer, Mona Ghandi, Ruairi Glynn, Usman Haque, Harshika Jain, Yasuaki Kakehi, Asif Khan, Kimchi and Chips , Manuel Kretzer, LAb[au], Neil Leach, Elyne Legarnisson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Minimaforms, MIT Media Laboratory, Güvenç Özel, Lisa Park, Gordon Pask, Dan Roosegaarde, Jenny Sabin, F. Myles Sciotto, SOFTlab, teamLab, Skylar Tibbits, Lining Yao, and Weidi Zhang. Edited by Behnaz Farahi and Neil Leach Published by Birkhäuser in collaboration with Tongji University Press, 2024 Softcover, 241 pages, 150 full color images, 6.5 × 9.5 inches ISBN: 978-3-03-562689-6