Last week the RAD Lab (Responsive Architecture at Daniels) received a visit from the Space Channel's flagship show InnerSPACE. The episode aired on Thursday, March 14, but those who missed it can view the segment online here.

The Space Channel spoke to Assistant Professors Chistos Markcopooulos, who provided an overview of RAD, and Carol Moukheiber, who introduced viewers to the popular IM Blanky project (a blanket embedded with sensors that can monitor one's movements while they sleep). Moukheiber also showed off a responsive curtain, designed by Mahtab Oskuee (MArch 2013), that can modulate light and privacy levels by opening and closing in response to activity around it. Second year M.Arch student Jonah Ross-Marrs provided an overview of a machine to which different instruments can be attached that can move in a 3D space.

RAD has just released a new book Make Alive: Prototypes for Responsive Architectures (which has also been published under the name The Living Breathing Thinking Responsive Buildings of the Future). Daniels students, faculty, and newsletter subscribers have been invited to a reception to celebrate the launch of the books at the RAD Lab this Thursday. If you do not fall into one of the above categories and would like to be added to the guest list, please contact communications@daniels.utoronto.ca.