Center of Motion, 2023

Center of Motion is a conceptual proposal for an interactive, sensor-augmented environment that examines how human movement, proximity, and collective behavior could shape an adaptive audiovisual space. The project imagines a modular wall-mounted system equipped with contactless proximity sensing, where light and sound respond directly to a visitor’s bodily movement—turning spatial navigation into a form of embodied music-making.

The proposed modules attach magnetically, allowing their arrangement to be reconfigured daily. This fluid physical structure reflects a core idea: spaces can adapt to human behavior just as humans adapt to space.

Central to the concept is the environment’s ability to record and reinterpret behavioral traces. Throughout an exhibition period, motion and proximity data would be captured and later replayed whenever visitors are absent. Over time, the installation becomes a kind of spatial memory system, replaying echoes of past interactions and revealing patterns of collective movement, fading with each passing day.

This piece was imagined as a focal point for communal activity, and anthropomorphizing the room that spectates human activity. How would it remember us? How would its space evolve to accomodate activity, and how would this change affect its memories? And more curiously, how will we respond to this enormous entity that seems to breathe and dream?

3D renderings by Jenny Liu.

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