The Better Self
Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschule Bernau
Supervisor – Isabella Pasqualini
VR engineering – Céline Dupuis
International Team: Ahmed Fetahu, Marion de Ruyter, Dardana Sadiku, Ana Mombiedro, Octavian Fedco, Mohamed Sherif, Louisa Wolf
5 Days Of Summer School
Created 2017
Contemplation and Concentration
Concentration is the ability to think carefully about something you are doing and nothing else.
Contemplation is profound thinking about something.
The learning experience in Bauhaus includes both parts.
The better self as the architectonic or technological promise of a better life is not a new idea in itself. We find it for instance in Aristotle’s writings, Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis”, or, Hannes Meyer’s Co-op projects. Since Ivan Sutherland proposed “The Ultimate Display” in the early 70’s, it has become a mainstream ideal for new technologies including immersive Virtual Reality.
Starting with Hannes Meyer’s Co-op interior, in this module we will gain a deeper understanding of the sense of place and space using immersive virtual media: Place, as a notion through which the present moment is related to an entire system of references; Space, as the immanent link between extension, time and the body. In this context, we will test different aspects of embodiment ranging from the user’s sense of presence in Virtual Reality, to feelings of space, well-being, as well as moods and emotions. We will define individual design parameters and learn to understand and to modulate the user’s sensations in a specific environment over time based on immersive media.
We will start our individual design project from a physical place that we conceptualize gradually through an augmentation in virtual space. The result is a custom-made technological approach to architectonic space and an innovative design method based on immersive Virtual Reality.
Isabella Pasqualini
