Living Shadows for Living Architecture Environments

This folio describes the Living Shadows project within the Living Architectures Systems Group’s (LASG’s) exploration of augmented reality (AR) environments. Living Shadows uses real-time projections to create a virtual world that augments the physical shadows of an LASG testbed. Creatures based on the sculpture’s physical components inhabit this virtual world. Set free as “living shadows,” they are a way of exploring how these normally static components might behave if they were given the autonomy to move through and interact with the sculpture’s environment. The publication forms part of a series of work-in-progress reports and publications by LASG researchers and contributors.

The 2022 workshop Shadows and Whispers: Emerging Forms at the Edges of Nature in Lessac, France, used shadows to explore the boundaries between nature and technology and dreams and waking life.

Includes contributions from Timothy Boll