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Human’s fascination for the universe is always so outstanding throughout history. Back to the times of ancient Greeks and Romans, people began to construe about the out world. The universe is given such romance that the stars are named after Gods. During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, the heliocentric system was first introduced by Copernicus, contrary to the church’s belief at that time. Despite such a systematic mathematical formulation of the solar system, our knowledge about the universe was nothing but too little. Hence mankind started to think about going into the space, and this was achieved in the 20 th century. The most notable among the excursions to the space was made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon. After that, the space has been extensively explored by the human race. The beauty and mystery of the space has inspired artists a lot. Back then to the 19 th century, Van Gogh created the famous masterpiece The Starry Night , which was an a

Last week I attended the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous and it was a mind-blowing experience. The event consists of several guests talking about their current projects and seeking cooperation among each other. Each of them is super brilliant and innovative, but one of them impressed me most. Her name is Behnaz Farahi. Behnaz Farahi Behnaz is an architect and interaction designer at USC working on enhancement of the relationship between human beings and the built environment. We, humans, react based on the surrounding environments. Behnaz, however, wants to go the other way around, by constructing something that reacts according to human movements. Next I will talk about her several ideas given in her presentation. Aurora The first one is called the “Aurora”, which is an interactive kinetic ceiling that responds to corporeal movements below it. In this way, a building is able to adjust its configuration by tracking bodily movements and is thus able to ad