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November 24
Philip Beesley, Hylozoic Soil - Montreal, PQ - 2007 “Hylozoic Soil is an interactive geotextile mesh that senses human occupants and responds with air movement, produced by peristaltic waves of motion within distributed fields of lightweight pores. Custom-manufactured components use prametric design and digital fabrication. Machine intelligence is embedded within networks of microcontrollers that coordinate arrays of proximity sensors and kinetic ‘actuators’. Arrays of capacitance-sensing whiskers and shape-memory alloy actuators are used to create a diffuse peristaltic pumping that pulls air and organic matter through the occupied space.” (via)

Philip Beesley, Hylozoic Soil - Montreal, PQ - 2007

“Hylozoic Soil is an interactive geotextile mesh that senses human occupants and responds with air movement, produced by peristaltic waves of motion within distributed fields of lightweight pores. Custom-manufactured components use prametric design and digital fabrication. Machine intelligence is embedded within networks of microcontrollers that coordinate arrays of proximity sensors and kinetic ‘actuators’. Arrays of capacitance-sensing whiskers and shape-memory alloy actuators are used to create a diffuse peristaltic pumping that pulls air and organic matter through the occupied space.” (via)