CEREBRAL HUT

Year: 2012-2014

Location: Traveling 

Team: Guvenc Ozel

Cerebral Hut is a large scale installation that explores the relationship between architecture, interactivity,movement and human thought. It debuted at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2012 and was later exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London in Summer 2013 and SXSW Interactive Festival in Spring 2014 for Pepsi and Fast Company. We traditionally assume that the built environment, whether in the architectural or the urban scale influences our psyche. What if we can reverse that relationship? What if a kinetic architecture could establish a direct connection between the thoughts of its user and itself in order to reconfigure its physical boundaries accordingly? In order to achieve this, an electromechanical computer controlled system was devised that is activated by a wireless input from an EEG helmet that the user wears. The EEG helmet reads the concentration levels of the user and translates them into motion through a code. The more the user concentrates, the more he/ she can transform the physical boundaries of the space.