IMITATION GAMES
Videos: Mirrored | Parallel | Speed | Projected
After Darwin, imitation, combined with a little imperfection and discrimination, is understood to be behind much of the design that populates our planet. That our species excels so at imitative processes - imitans has been suggested as a more apt moniker than sapiens - perhaps explains the astonishing extent of our environmental redesignings. Building upon this, this project asked how rock climbing environments might be designed to encourage kinaesthetic learning through imitation, a process already familiar to martial artists and dancers. This produced an octagonal roundel, with mirrored, parallel and projected climbing routes, which in use suggested that imitative climbing can effectively challenge climbers' engrained habits of movement.
