The (In)comprehensible movement

The relation between of movement you perceive in space and the (in)comprehensible movement you experience with your body.

This project is now archived and was part of DDW21

This project is part of
ArtEZ IN_architecture alumni 2021

Disruption of your bodily movement

Susan van den Berg

While researching the elevator, several features emerged that could trigger fears, such as the elevator's unnatural vertical movement. I have explored how I can disrupt or flawless amplify movement through space between our vestibular system and our perception by senses.

Visual guidance

Psychologist Jan van den Berg of anxiety treatment center IPZO told me in an interview that our brain needs visual guidance to understand the movements we experience with our vestibular system. And if we can't find it, like in the elevator, it can cause an unpleasant feeling in your body.

Understanding movement

So, the visual is very important to understand the perceived movement. By conducting various studies and experiments into the experience of movement, it emerged that, other senses such as hearing and feeling, your expectations that you create from space, non-linear movements, a vertigo effect, and perspective in which no horizon is visible, can contribute to disrupt when the understanding of the movement you perceive.

Interactive installation

With my concept design I create an interaction between the visible movement of the user and an action of the specific context, in this case the horizontal movement. The space responds to the perceived movement with optical moving patterns and flexible reshapeable walls. As a result, an experience of disturbance or a flawless amplification of your moment of bodily movement can be achieved.