It doesn’t transform through any direct interactions with it, but is linked to other long term data input.

It acts sort of as a data visualisation for a person to track their habits or behaviors or any long term trainings.

For example, it can be ( somehow) linked to a person’s fitness journey. The plant grows as the person becomes more fit. For the weeks when the person doesn’t work out as much, the plant might start to wilt. To keep the plant looking alive and grows stronger, the person needs to maintain their health and fitness routine.

Example setting: Office

The system memorizes the boss’s face and map it to the Magic Wall.

Every time the boss makes an announcement, the Magic Wall extrudes out into the shape of his face, and the lips/ facial expression of the wall moves according to the tone and words of the boss while he is talking from a different location.

The people can also talk back to the wall and have a conversation with the wall as well.

Pat Davivongsa is a graduate candidate of the Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her interests lay on the intersection of user experience and human interaction to their surroundings in the current developing world. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Design from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok in 2014, from which her interest of space derived. In conjunction with architecture and digital media works, Davivongsa is also a co-producer, a bassist, and an occasional vocalist of the band ‘New Mandarin’, which they have just released their first EP in 2015.

You can go here to the site. (It is still in beta so the domain name and a few things will probably change soon. I’ll update this post once it’s done!)

Looking forward to this class!

pdavivongsa@massart.edu for contact