Feb 09, 2023
Hybrid Spaces explores the creation of part-real, partvirtual
spaces, in which physical and virtual structures
extend, intertwine and blend with one another. To
better understand the possibilities of such spaces and
how we might approach their design and construction,
a team of informatik, architecture and design
researchers and students worked together to augment
the robotron Kantine, both physically and virtually.
Hybrid Spaces transforms the Kantine into a
multisensory parkour in which concepts of
multisensory congruence and conflict, tangibility and
persistence, embodied action and affordance provide
basic building materials. With unethered mixed reality
head-mounted displays and a system developed by TU
Dresden IXLAB, visitors see, touch and hear a multilayered
world in which the boundary between virtual
and physical is never quite certain.
For the duration of Hybrid Spaces, the Kantine will
exist in a superposition of states, a layering of multiple
realities, collapsing uniquely under the gaze of each
viewer. In this hybrid space, what may be true for one
viewer may not be so for another. The true impact of
augmented reality, it seems, may be the undermining
of the very idea of a single shared reality, an illusion
we have laboured so long to construct.
The exhibition was created „in situ“ from a
collaboration between scientists from the TU Dresden.
IXLAB Immersive Experience Lab and Professur für
Gestaltungslehre were involved. The design process
used virtual and physical design-methods in 1:1.
Admission is free.
Cooperation:
TU Dresden/ Fakultät Informatik/ IXLAB Immersive
Experience Lab/ Jun. Prof. Dr. Matthew McGinity
TU Dresden/ Fakultät Architektur/ Professur für
Gestaltungslehre/ Prof. Dr. Henning Haupt
TU Dresden/ Philosophische Fakultät/ Institut für
Kunstwissenschaft/ Professur für Bildwissenschaften
im globalen Kontext/ Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schankweiler
Team:
Hendrik Appel, Lorenz Hoffmann, Kaspar Kleinhenz,
Kelsang Mende, Chiara Schmidt, Valentin Schroers,
Adam Streicher, Ksenija Tajsic
IXLAB software and support: Krishnan Chandran,
Florian Schier, Daniel Zeidler, Zhongyuan Yu
Opening hours:
Wednesday 15.02. 16:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Thursday 16.02. 16:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Friday 17.02. 16:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Saturday 18.02. 12:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Time slot bookings for the exhibition can be booked
via QR-Code and here: