Project Summary

'Emotional Spaces' is a foray into (as the title states), emotional space. Particularly if the space is ambiguously emotional.

We spend our everyday in designed spaces that affect the way we react to and percieve the world. Emotional Spaces are a series of explorations using very simple tools and a web interface that will allow someone from the internet (a space in which we have no body, no physical presence to begin with) to become the ghost of architecture or the kuora of a prototype module of emotional space.

The internet user will have various emotions to mix and match from. The emotional characteristics the user selects will be translated into light and sound and will affect the viewer within the space. However since the sound within the space is also based on computer vision input from the space itself, the viewer that is on site is also a user. 'Emotional Spaces' is a play with filters of human and machine perception and human and machine communication.

The module is very simple to build, all one needs are some standard sheets of plywood or sheet rock or angle irons and cardboard and salvaged material from the street. The space will be built channeling the tradition of the sukkot where there is a place for everyone to come in for shelter and food, but no roof overhead. For the interaction all one needs is a camera and some simple computer vision code. The rest can be channeled into any kind of home made modules one can think of. I like to use sound, because it comes standard with a computer and it an ethereal time/space medium. Depending on time and money other modules can be integrated into the construction. It is important however, to always use standard construction materials, as they are not designed to convey any kind of effect. They are the basic unit of constructiona nd a perfect projection for user emotions.