OUR MEDIATED LAB

Alex Jonsson and Leif Handberg in the Presence Lab

Our lab is a disused reactor hall on KTH main campus, KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space & Presence Lab, Drottning Kristinas väg 51.

This is a unique setting where we carry out most of our prototyping relating to presence design. We also create mediated performances, often in collaboration with musicians and artists from Stockholm University of the Arts or Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

The lab has a 3-party CollaborationSpace with a Mediated Sketching-table, allowing us to work closely with colleagues at, for example, TU Delft, Luleå Technical University, or UIUC outside Chicago. We think it should be easy for distributed groups to sketch and draw together in real-time, so we are developing products to support collaboration, and that allow you to sketch together both on analogue paper, and on digital surfaces.

Architects, of course, sketch together during design work. But we think a lot of people who collaborate remotely need to make use of horizontal surfaces to create a shared drawing area for note-taking etc. . is important that you see the hand-in-action, of the person you are sketching with.

Here you can see a filmclip from our prototyping on the Mediated Sketching-table in 2012

And here is a film clip from a mediated classroom-session where architect Robin Scharverbeke (Sint Lukas School of Architecture) teaches Jimmy Nyström, Luleå Technical University) how to draw. And a filmclip by students from Luleå Technical University elaborating and testing the prototype.