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aspire to produce buildings and spaces that go beyond function and
effectiveness, which can become meaningful to people who occupy or
encounter them. With the advent of digitally connected architecture,
we have an opportunity to reinvent architecture as a source of meaning.
Pervasive computing will provide feedback about perceptions and phys-
ical experiences as our bodies interact with our spaces. Documentation
and analysis of feedback will increase our awareness of what it means
to embody and occupy space. To move to this next stage, digital experi-
ence designers and architects must enlighten one another and collabo-
rate to inspire hybrid models of design practice (Figure 13 - 1 ).
f gure 13-1. Hybrid design will emerge when the patterns of digital experience i
designers and architects converge (courtesy of the author)
Hybrid Design Practice
Traditionally, architects are trained to think about interaction in terms
of form and physical occupation, activity, and movement bounded by
space—walls, floors, and ceilings, illuminated by sun or artificial light,
defined by materiality. There is no dominant theory that governs the
work of all architects. Rather, practitioners follow a range of meth-
ods and apply design theories based on their academic training and
compliance with firm methods in keeping with their own personal
approaches. After spending time gathering information about the con-
text and deepening their understanding of the problem, some archi-
tects aggregate programmatic elements into systems. Others might
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