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budapest 2004
moscow 2005
london 2005
oslo 2005
stockholm 2006
montreal 2006
RemoteHome is a live prototype for an apartment that simultaneously exists in two cities, shared by close friends. Time and space are bridged through a responsive and kinetic environment that is connected through the internet to enable intimate interaction between close friends over distance.
In the exhibition the RemoteHome is shown as two physically separate pieces: one full-scale installation and one 1:10 model.
Digital technology is used to move beyond business communication and video conferences. It is used to intuitively extend a physical space over distance, a space that is considered private, but not fixed to one territory.
The RemoteHome experiments with different modalities of interaction, perception and scale. The personal scale is represented in reactive furniture objects. These elements provoke a direct engagement from their owner, but in fact they are just mediating artefacts between the remote spaces.
The architectural scale is addressing the space that is surrounding us, a state of immersion and spatial organisation. Finally the translocational scale is describing spatially distributed, but not physical relationships, like looking at the two RemoteHome spaces as a topological entity.
This exhibition is presenting two connected, but separated interactive prototypes. A real life size prototype is standing in contact with a 1:10 responsive model of the space. The life and activity of each respective space is relayed to the other, and can be observed over a short distance in the gallery.
The BusyBench is a responsive piece of furniture, representing the idea of sharing a space in a physical as well as mental way. The bench can be remotely occupied by the distant friend, causing the object to physically transform into another state of being.
AmbientScribbles is a collection of light pods that are kinetically adapting their presence depending on the activities and agitation on the other side.
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RemoteHome, the BusyBench and the AmbientScribbles. Photo: Smart studio. remotehome03.jpg (0.5 MB) |
RemoteHome 1:10. Photo: Smart studio. remotehome04.jpg (0.4 MB) |
RemoteHome BusyBench. busybench_double.tif (6.5 MB) |
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RemoteHome: A visitor in the BusyBench. rh_sleeping.jpg (2.0 MB) |
RemoteHome lamps. rh_lamps.jpg (1.1 MB) |
RemoteHome lamps. rh_lamps2.tif (7.0 MB) |
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| Remotehome at doga, Oslo. Photo: Fredrik Petersson. remotehome1446.jpg (985 kB) | Remotehome (detail). Photo: Pernilla Edholm. |
Remotehome in Oslo. Photo: Fredrik Petersson. remotehome1463.jpg |
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KEYWORDS
remote intimacy · omnipresence · mediating architecture
PEOPLE
Tobi Schneidler · Loove Broms · Magnus Jonsson · Fredrik Petersson
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