Today, Virtual Reality (VR) is predominantly used in architecture practice for its visual capacities – becoming ‘just’ another mode of digital representation. This lecture explores VR’s potential beyond its visual territory and probes how it can be used to explore the multimodality of spatial experiences and atmospheres. By presenting a series of 1:1 interactive models and experimental mixed reality installations, VR in architecture will be discussed from a phenomenological perspective and examined for its potential to facilitate more intuitive and embodied design and decision-making processes.

Based between Amsterdam and Vienna, Paula Strunden is an interdisciplinary designer and PhD researcher who develops and builds multisensory mixed reality experiences. She is the co-founder of Soft Bodies and Virtual Fruits.

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