Description
This course seeks to challenge the status quo of architectural design by introducing students to
gamesbased design skills through the combination of robots, as agents, within roomscale
virtual reality.
Working within the Robot House, students will take on the epic challenge of applying new technologies to
explore the new horizon of advanced body machine interfacing as a design workflow. Deploying a vision of
agentbased design, they will learn to use bodychoreography as gesture input within a game platform of
ranked, scored challenges leading to an epic design win.
As a context for exploring the virtual, we will be using Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology edited by
Bruce Sterling. The characters, environments, and actions (the three levels of this game) contained within
this book will provide the starting point for the design of an exhibition open to film/game, science and design
professionals alike.