Playgrounds: Interactive Spaces in Yerevan
2014-12-22
News
Architect and computational designer Biayna Bogosian is back at Tumo leading a two week workshop entitled "Playgrounds".
Playgrounds is an urban game which offers the players an opportunity to collaborate and create interactive public spaces. 16 students are learning how to use computational design thinking to propose creative solutions for temporary usage of public spaces in Yerevan. Following a week of research, including a fieldtrip around Yerevan, they are now in the simulation phase in which they are designing virtual functional, portable and configurable components to explore the concept of interactivity in both a physical and a digital sense. Participants are also experimenting with light and sound using the Arduino platform.
The prototype phase of Playgrounds will take place in March and the final products will be deployed in central Yerevan in the summer of 2015.
Biayna Bogosian holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Woodbury University. She is a founding partner of Somewhere Something, a studio focused on data driven virtual and built environments. She has taught digital media seminars and design studios at Columbia University, USC School of Architecture, Woodbury University and Tongji University.