TES [The Empathetic Space] is an interactive installation that utilizes an uncharted combination of techniques in design and production to alter users’ everyday interactions with space. Over the course of a three week period in January 2010, a team of two professors, two teaching assistants and eleven second and third year students assembled to design, build and install this project.Situated at the heart of the Hampshire College campus—the Harold F. Johnson Library—TES’s lantern-like structures reflect the topographical forms of the adjacent Holyoke Range, while its electronically animated behaviors mimic the actual complexity of existing movement paths within the space. The result is an interactive architecture that engages, challenges and inspires viewers in re-imagining a familiar environment through a visual and environmental intervention that’s beautiful, functional, organic and responsive.

See professors Thom Long and John Slepian plan for January term 2010 course, The Empathetic Space.

Watch as student work together to design TES [The Empathetic Space].

Watch as students take TES [The Empathetic Space] from design to fabrication.
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