JAPAN / EMBODIED INTERACTION
ANKOKUBUTOH
Body-Space Interaction Device
An interactive installation exploring how bodily movement can negotiate and reinterpret architectural space. Rather than treating space as a neutral container, the project considers thresholds, corridors, and enclosures as physical conditions that shape behavior.
INTERACTION / INSTALLATION
ANKOKUBUTOH
Body-Space Interaction Device
An interactive installation exploring how bodily movement can negotiate and reinterpret architectural space. Rather than treating space as a neutral container, the project considers thresholds, corridors, and enclosures as physical conditions that shape behavior.
01 / RESEARCH / PERSONAL INQUIRY
FROM CURIOSITY TO AN EMBODIED DESIGN QUESTION
How might someone without dance training experience the movement qualities of Ankoku Butoh?
02 / CONCEPT / MATERIAL TRANSLATION
FROM CRAB-FOOT POSTURE TO A SOFT SPATIAL SYSTEM
Translating a characteristic posture into form, material, and resistance.
03 / FRONT MOTION SHAPING
SOFT RESISTANCE PROMPTS THE BODY FORWARD
The environment elicits movement instead of prescribing choreography.
04 / BACK MOTION SHAPING
REVERSING DIRECTION CHANGES THE MOVEMENT RESPONSE
The return journey produces a different bodily strategy.
05 / MOTION ANALYSIS
THE EXPERIENCE BECOMES A VISIBLE MOVEMENT SCORE
Movement emerged through negotiation, not instruction.
END / CASE STUDY