Humanscale's installation at Milan design week mimics the movements of its visitors, explains designer Todd Bracher in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the workplace ergonomics brand. 
New York-based Bracher has created an interactive light sculpture for the manufacturer of ergonomic workplace products.
Titled Bodies in Motion, the installation was designed by Bracher in collaboration with digital designers Studio The Green Eyl, and aims to capture the feeling of human movement.
Humanscale's Bodies In Motion installation for Milan design week is an interactive light sculpture
"We wanted to capture human movement in a way that's truly pure and very connected to Humanscale's DNA," Bracher told Dezeen.
"We wanted to remove any cosmetic distractions from watching someone move and instead capture the essence of human movement in its most essential form," he continued. The installation uses 15 beams of light to project an image of a moving human body onto a screen
The installation, which is situated in the warehouse of Ventura Centrale in Milan, features a minimal representation of the human body formed of lights that respond to the movements of visitors.
As visitor's bodies are scanned by camera sensors, 15 motorised lights project tightly-focussed white beams onto a screen fifteen metres away. The points of light on the screen correspond to key points of the subject's body including the head, shoulders, elbows, hands, sternum, hips, knees or feet.
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