Responsive Fields is a device created by architect and designer Tobi Schneidler that tracks and records hand motions as a mechanism that controls the operation of virtual "agents" that exist within the device's embedded screen. This device uses the recorded movements in order to create a dialogue between the digital interface and the full-scale prototype generated through the interface, viewed by Schneidler as a living process.
Schneidler's thoughts regarding parametric design become rather interesting within the realm of debate about parametrically designed / algorithmic architecture: "The craft [cutting edge architectural practice] was to form buildings out of data feeds somehow collected on the urban site. CAD as a tool has been retrained to become an autonomic design machine, code-named: Parametric Design. The user, the experience and the interaction with the build environment were largely dropping out of the debate."
Schneidler's other projects, as discussed through Gizmodo Gallery, demonstrate the huge potential of parametric design as it relates to mass customization. Parametric design contains the ability to connect the user's needs/wants very specifically to the end product through the idea of mass customization, creating a very interesting dynamic between the two. By linking the user directly to the digital interface, the legitimacy of this dynamic grows even further.
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