4dspace: the developing identity of interactive architecture and its influence on the contemporary cultural environment.
what is interactive architecture and how is it being creatively exploited at a time when the boundaries between public and private space are blurred and computing has become social infrastructure? an experiential architecture is evolving from a cross-disciplinary use of digital media that explores the way people relate to one another and their environments. in the overlap of building and programme comes unprecedented scope to modify individuals’ spatial experiences, but according to what and whose agenda? how do the issues provoked by the growth of pliable and responsive digital public environments warrant new definitions of creative roles?

4dspace is supported by the architectural unit of the arts council of england, arup communications, the royal netherlands embassy, the swiss embassy and presence switzerland.

a one and a half day international conference with keynote speakers including pioneering interactive architects ron arad, professor of design at the royal college of art, christian möller, professor of design/media arts at ucla, lars
spuybroek (nox, rotterdam), marcelyn gow (servo, an international multidisciplinary practice), marc neelen (stealth network, rotterdam/belgrade), psychologist dr paul verschure of eth, zurich, project leader of ada: the intelligent room; jim read, associate director at arup communications; the london-based josephine pletts and usman haque (pletts haque), shona kitchen of kitchen rogers and designer ben hooker, tapio snellmann and christian grou (neutral), chris allen (director, the light surgeons, uk), architects /filmmakers, and commentators ole bouman, editor-in-chief of archis magazine, and professor antonino saggio of ‘la sapienza’ rome university. chairs: architect david turnbull (atopia), professor of electronic media, university of bath, and lucy bullivant, architectural critic and curator. lars spuybroek’s talk will be given at 7pm on monday 19 may