A vision of human interaction with future dynamic materials that are computationally reconfigurable.
Radical Atoms is a computationally transformable and reconfigurable material, bidirectionally coupled with an underlying digital model, so that dynamic changes of physical form are reflected in digital state in real time, and the reverse.
It is a vision-driven design research on dynamic physical material that can conform to structural constraints, transform its structure and behaviour, and inform new abilities.
Written with Hiroshi Ishii, Dávid Lakatos and Leonardo Bonanni. Exhibited at Ars Electronica, Linz. Concept development with Chris Bangle, designer of the shape-shifting GINA, and brainstorming with Neal Stephenson.