FCJ-130 Embedding response: self production as a model for an actuated architecture

This article reflects on two architectural installations by the authors, Breathing Room and Slow Furl, and develops a conceptual framework within which the key terms of material interaction and self production can be discussed. Developed as speculative probes, the architectural installations query the conceptual and technological basis of the overall enquiry. Departing from a cybernetic understanding of the organism as sited within a process of continual self-production, the article discusses architecture as a material interface to an autonomous system of interaction. Where ubiquitous and pervasive computing typically seeks an immaterial interface this paper seeks to discover an architecture of action, where the surfaces of the built environment themselves attain the potential of movement and behaviour.