Credit/ Shuxuan Fiona Wang, Jenny Lee, Xiaoran Mia Zhu
These forms serve as both controllers for a game and a means for adults to connect with their inner children, offering a playful and immersive experience that fosters relationship-building through shared exploration.
Description
This is meant to be an experience for adults to play and build relationships with each other as if they were kids again. The space invites everyone back to their kindergarten days with its brightly colored rug and pillow-like forms. Inspired by Ernesto Neto's large, soft, biomorphic structures, the two forms are designed to feel like a comfortable hug when held. But they are also controllers to a whimsical browser-based game where each player is a fiery orb. Squeezing and rolling with the controllers reveals fun visual effects and audio reactions that two players can uncover together. It is meant to become an opportunity for the people to form a bond together too.
On View at NYU ITP Winter Show 2023
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