stud.io

Addressing the notion of remote tangibility

Designers and artists working remotely were missing something specific, not video calls, but the experience of someone working next to you. Someone whose hands you can see, whose process you can follow in real time on the same surface.
stud.io is a hacked IKEA floor lamp fitted with a Raspberry Pi, camera, and small projector. It sits over your work surface and connects bilaterally with another unit.

What gets projected isn't a screen, it's hands, marks, and instructions cast directly onto the surface in front of you. The person on the other end sees yours the same way.
Built and prototyped across multiple locations in Europe and the US, which made the problem unavoidably personal.

Year
2021

Team

David Zhou, Georgios Grigoriadis, Julia Park, Kailin Li, Titus Ebbecke

Medium
Electronics, Digital Fabrication, Sensors and Cameras



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