Interactive installation · Latvian Pavilion
La Biennale di Venezia
“It’s not for you. It’s for the building.” — a tangle of machinery that notices you and speaks back, at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.
- Year
- 2021
- Where
- La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
- Our role
- Interaction design and light installation
- Discipline
- Installations
Mother Nature has given way to Mother Technology. For the Latvian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, curated by NRJA, we made the machine respond: a tangle of black pipes that looks like a parasite — until it reacts to your presence and addresses you in its own reassuring language.
01A frightening stranger, a friendly neighbour
In our homes, offices and public spaces, technology has become a way of life — and it has changed how we live with architecture. The installation embodies our contradictory attitude towards it in a tangible, interactive way.
At first sight the pipes look like a foreign body that has overrun a human space. Then the lights answer the visitor: the stranger notices you, follows you and speaks. Coexistence replaces fear.
02Our part
SIA SPACE realized the idea of the exhibition’s light installation and its interaction — the behaviour that makes a building’s machinery feel aware of the people inside it — working alongside the NRJA team, audio designer Gatis Ziema and the full production crew.
“Technology is a means to an end. What may have seemed only “for the building”, proves to be “for you” after all.”
— NRJA, curatorial statement
Tools & tech
- Presence sensing
- Interactive light
- Spatial sound
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Credits
- Curators
- NRJA — Uldis Lukševics, Elīna Lībiete, Ivars Veinbergs, Zigmārs Jauja, Ieva Lāce-Lukševica, Inga Dubinska, Līga Jumburga
- Realization
- NRJA, Pēteris Riekstiņš, Ansis Bergmanis, Edgars Ošs, Juris Simanovičs, Viesturs Laiviņš, Artūrs Tols, Artūrs Kalvāns
- Interaction
- SIA SPACE — Mārtiņš Dāboliņš
- Audio design
- Gatis Ziema
- Idea of the title
- Peter Trummer
- Graphic design
- Alexey Murashko
- Illustrations
- Ivars Veinbergs
- Photography
- Ēriks Božis, Andrejs Strokins
- Video
- Ēriks Božis, Marta Elīna Martinsone
- Book
- NRJA and Levelup
- Project management
- Austra Bērziņa, Jeļena Smelova
- Communications
- Linda Bērziņa
- Supported by
- Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Arctic Paper
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