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Playful Bodies
About this project
Playful Bodies is an interactive installation that turns a room full of people into a living control panel for the lights around them. No buttons, no apps, no instructions you have to read first. Just your body, the people around you, and the space you’re all sharing.
Discovery is part of the experience, the slow realization that the room is watching, the moment someone figures out why the lights just changed, the negotiation that happens when a group tries to coordinate a gesture they’ve never done together before. That process of collective sense-making is the work.
Playful Bodies asks a simple question: what happens when a smart environment responds not just to individuals, but to the social dynamics between them? What kinds of behaviour emerge when a group of people share authorship over a space?