In the Anthropocene attention is currency and information, experience. Today’s hyper-connected user draws experience from devices instead of space. As this divide deepens, we question the relationship with technology and the built environment.

We propose an embedded urban technology to create experiences which engage, enthuse and inspire a reality where the argument of ‘Technology vs. Architecture’ becomes a synthesis of ‘Technology with Architecture’. It defies the monotony of conventional public spaces and utility-based interactions. Visually intriguing by day, by night it’s a metamorphosis of light, illuminating, alive, ethereal, encouraging us to break barriers of space, touch and interaction.

Using data from proximity, temperature, sound, and density, Synesthesia reacts in real-time to the dynamics of the city. Modular and scalable, it self-iterates exposing one to varying contexts of built space—a harbinger of the new urban; where the user is the designer.