iDesign: Intelligent User Interface

Current workflows in the design of spatial environments for performance practice are limited by a reliance on traditional architectural drawing practice and 19th century ‘bauprobe’ modelling, limiting the agility of spatial designers working in industry to understand space when prototype designs and making material and lighting decisions. This research at UNSW’s iCinema concerns the project iDesign, which significantly advances transforms contemporary performance design through the application of novel forms of dialogical aesthetics, i.e. developing the capability for users to create and adjust set models via a touch screen or keyboard and to immediately review them as life-sized virtual renditions. Leveraging the 360-degree AVIE visualisation platform networked to laptops and tablets, users can begin drafting their designs within a detail-rich 3D environment that digitally replicates of the real-life venue their production will be staged at.