The edge of experiences. Towards a material ecology of augmented interiors

Abstract

Augmented interiors are here to stay, yet their overall capacity to increase well-being remains unclear despite decades of technical improvements and content development. This article highlights the need to design new ecologies of spatial augmentation, grounded in materials vibrancy and able to reconnect us with ourselves, with places, and with time. To move beyond "things that glitter", information overload, and extended automation, augmented interiors ought to bring about new kinds of interior experiences that are not just novel, or more efficient, but transformative. Reflecting on [RIP]_Montevideo, an interactive installation depicting images from urban archives, it highlights the importance of edge qualities in achieving openness, arguing that a shift of focus from content to edges is essential to resolve the conflicting requirements of digitally augmented interiors, between cognition and sensibility.

KEYWORDS:

• augmented space
• interactive art
• research-creation
• edge design
• extended reality

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 A first, work-in-progress version was presented in 2018 at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC), the main contemporary art museum in Montevideo.

2 British artist who first conceptualized the potential of destruction in art.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, Uruguay.

Notes on contributors

Carola Moujan

Carola Moujan Carola Moujan is an artist, designer and researcher based in Paris (France). Her research-creation work explores the concept of entr’espace, an emergent quality arising from the entanglement of interactive processes connecting spaces, temporalities, sensitive bodies, affects, materials, and digital code in more than human contexts. Her transdisciplinary practice crosses the fields of new media & installation art, interaction design, graphic art, urban design, scenography and cartography. She holds a Ph.D in design from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at CITERES Lab, Université de Tours, France. Email: [email protected]