What is it about?

The relationship between human activity, the built environment, such as homes, offices, and schools, and the surrounding natural environment hide interaction patterns that can be better understood. Today, we examine this relationship through dashboards and data visualization tools as something we see and interpret on a screen rather than something we can experience with our bodies. Experiencing this relationship is vital to understanding the cybernetic and interdependent interactions between human activity and the built and natural environment.

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Why is it important?

We created an immersive representation of a building and its surrounding environment through Generative AI. We translated multiple data streams into text using GPT3 and matched them to a human-tagged music database using an artificial intelligence music engine to create an evolving audio and visual stream. The installation offers participants an embodied experience to explore this relationship, perceive more-than-human time scales and experience data through other sensory modalities beyond sight, resulting in a deeper understanding of this relationship as an evolving system.

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Our aim with this research is to explore the use of technology to create experiences that offer possibilities for hopeful futures where human activity and the built and natural environments operate in harmony.

Josh Andres
The Australian National University

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This page is a summary of: The Human-Built Environment-Natural Environment Relation - An Immersive Multisensory Exploration with 'System of a Sound', March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3581754.3584119.
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