Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that employs networked digital technologies to remember, correlate, and anticipate.

A graduate design studio that develops responsive architecture for the NYC subway and addresses environmental health problems.

Investigating how natural and artificial atmospheric systems can serve as models for the design, analysis and interpretation of the architecture of urban environments.

An exhibition of student and faculty research work in responsive materials.

Propagative Urbanism is a way of thinking about shaping the architecture of urban space in terms of a bottom-up, participatory approach to the evolution of cities.

A graduate research studio that explores the atmosphere of the freeway and proposes various responsive architecture that engage its ecology.

The Sentient City Survival Kit is a design research project that explores the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environments.

An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture and urban space.

A technic course that introduces students to parametric design and rapid prototyping technologies.

Gravity Screens are part of a research project exploring computationally inspired and augmented materials for responsive architecture

A responsive architecture that adapts to crowds by sensing the changing carbon dioxide in the air.

A variable event structure designed to raise awareness of issues surrounding the wireless topography of urban environments.

This course introduces basic concepts and techniques for creating objects, spaces and media that sense and respond to their physical surroundings.

Day For Night was a temporary architectural environment that operated on the street life of downtown San Jose, California [...]

An infrared urban screen for promoting dialogue and interaction between remote publics.

Zero Atmosphere Architecture discusses architecture, human computer interaction and Earth ecology discourse in the context of design for outer space.

de Monchaux at Jordan Geiger’s Zero Atmosphere Architecture seminar, discusses HCI and architecture in his book Space Suit and project Local Code.

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] is an open source software platform for cultivating public “sound gardens” in contemporary cities.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism.