Interactive Design: Nature And Interactive Environment Design

Nature and interactive environment design

Mehdi Haghshenas

Interactive design has created an opportunity for interaction with nature in some of the built environment projects, helping people communicate effectively with their surrounding environment. Therefore, the digital spaces used in the interior or exterior parts of buildings have become somehow the extension of nature into contemporary life. The current essay views this issue from two angles, aiming to promote visual studies and to discover aspects of nature and the functions of designing an interactive environment.

1. Similarity between types of human-nature interaction and interactive environment design

Despite the fact that interactive environment works are artifacts and fundamentally

Typology of interactive environment design in connection with the nature

The current typology is the categorization of goals that the majority of interactive environment designs have pursued until now in relation to the nature. It is always possible that a work simultaneously falls into two or more categories, since the project design procedure can follow one or more objectives.

Recording the reality. In addition to taxidermy animals, fossils, pictures, etc., interactive design represents reality and provides information about types and methods of life of different species; recreates the natural crises scenes; and explores and discovers more widely in order to improve the qualitative level of human-nature communication. Focus on the establishment of wild life museums, giant aquatic species aquariums, and cosmology centers is part of the human effort towards recording, studying, and further knowing the nature. This attitude also determines the necessity to design and use its extraordinary potentials in the process of preserving the diverse types of creatures and introducing them to the society and future

Aiming at educating and explaining, a branch of design attempts to focus on the nature, solve the present and future problems, resolve the ecological issues and crises which have spread all over the world. One might wonder why in our era talking about the nature inevitably provokes discussion about the natural crises. This proves the necessity of responsible and lifesaving design objectives. However, such tendency is not considered a critical plan; it rather pursues the positive objective of the significance of nature in most of its fields of activity and attempts to promote the society theoretically and practically through education and propagation of positive