F_RMlab at the Gladstone’s Grow Op 2013

If you’ve seen a couple of masters students laser cutting endless rolls of mylar and/or playing with arduinos, motors and a bunch of wiring in the past month, you may know F_RMlab has been busy preparing for an installation at GrowOp. GrowOp is an exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel that celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place across a broad range of creative practices. The event will run from April 25-28, with the opening reception happening this Friday (April 26) 7-10pm.
 
F_RMlab is interested in discovering new dynamic relationships between people and their surroundings. With Field Guide, we aim to construct an affective environment that provokes people’s extensive perceptual participation and total bodily involvement with the space. The project involves not only an intricate modular surface system but also an integrated digital system that allows the installation’s dynamic engagement with the participants.
 
F_RMlab is a graduate student initiated digital design and fabrication research collective formed to promote design based computational skills and discourse at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. With interests in digital design and physical computation, grads at F_RMlab are deeply invested in research focused on responsive environments, information processing and material systems.