Being present

Drawing on phenomenology, embodiment, and spatial interaction, this project investigates how moments of presence may emerge. Developed through a Research through Design approach, the project explores situated spatial installation across indoor public spaces to outdoor natural settings. The situated tests suggest that presence may emerge in different ways across natural and constructed environments: through direct embodied sensing in outdoor settings, or through atmosphere, memory, and symbolic association in indoor spaces. Across both conditions, the project explores how interaction design may support moments when people reconnect with bodily awareness, perception, and the surrounding world.