Transforming Space is an experimental installation drawing upon taxonomies found in organic living systems that are merged with the latest digital and synthetic scientific developments. This exploration emerged through an integrated collaboration with Amsterdam-based 4D SOUND and the Waterloo-based Living Architecture Systems Group (LAS) consisting of engineers, scientists, designers, and artists. The environment is an experiential, futuristic forest with hovering canopies, tangled thickets, and soaring clouds created from 3D fabricated forms that are assembled manually and embedded with artificial intelligence that can learn, adapt and even show curiosity as it evolves.
The Dome Dress, a collaboration by Iris van Herpen and Philip Beesley, surrounded by the Beesley-designed canopy ?Aegis? by installation at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Transforming Space. Aegis consists of an artificial forest and clouds designed with CAD software and created with 3D fabricated material. Thousands of parts form six component assemblies that contain tiny interlinked micro- processors organized in dense meshes. Suspended inside this intricate web are custom glasswork manifolds that are known as prototype cells (protocells) which contain a combination of oil, inorganic chemicals, and other solutions to form a chemical skin (opposite page, right).
Sphere-shaped skeletons emulating the hollow bone structures of birds and mammals are lined with bubbling prototype cells filled with self- rene...