Chrisoula Kapelonis
All Work
Smart Spaces
Design Innovation
Wearables
Architectural Design
About
All Work
Smart Spaces
Design Innovation
Wearables
Architectural Design
About
Chrisoula Kapelonis
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Welcome to my
synthesis
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Designer. Architect. Strategist. Researcher.
Google
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MIT Media Lab + Harvard GSD
Google Assistant
Design lead for Google Assistant integrations focused on 3P speakers, wearables, SDK and new Home experiences.
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Escape Pod
An experimental, multi-modal, transformative spatial laboratory for research and innovation in Building Human Interface.
EscPOD
Receptive Skins
An exploration of smart materials and their potential to modulate spatial atmospheres for human comfort.
Smart skins
The future of Grocery
A new human relationship with the food ecosystem.
Start the Experience
IKEA 2050
The future of home experiences.
Welcome Home
Spatial Flux
A seamless pneumatic surface that morphs to embrace the human body in zero gravity.
Spatial Flux
F.A.S.T. Robot
Flat-sheet actuated, scurrying tetrapod.
Informal Robotics
Wearable as Architecture
A pneumatic symbiosis between body and space.
Symbiotic Skins
Hacking Farming
A design sprint hosted by IDEO and Bayer Crop Science to explore the potential for new technologies to reinvent the process of seed sorting.
hacking growth
Crowdsourcing Perception
A research methodology for
revealing the subjective layers of the built environment
Crowdsource
Smart Communal Spaces
A future office concept for communal augmented interfaces, developed at the design workshop, Media Lab Dubai. Co-hosted by IDEO, Wamda and Community Jameel.
AR Futures
Future of Kitchens
A research project focusing on the future of appliances and kitchen spaces.
Future Kitchen
IDEO Bits + Blocks Lab
How might we use Blockchains to design new relationships around trust and identity systems?
Distributed Futures
Bergamo eMotion
A research platform for collecting emotive citizen data about mobility systems in Bergamo, Italy.
Bergamo eMotion
Active Surveillance
Spy-der: a wearable for conscious surveillance.
Active Surveillance
Auto Inflatables
Self-inflating pneumatic surfaces.
Auto Inflate
BKSK Lab Research
Select examples of work produced for the BKSK sustainability LAB.
Green Sheets
Spatial Emotional Awareness
A wearable necklace for feeling the emotional temperature of a space.
SEA
Digipresence
A dynamic presence detection device that translates people's signal presence in a space to an audio and visual feed.
Digital presence
Space to Sound
Gracenote: a wearable for converting spatial information into audio.
Hear space
Library of Obsolescence
Undergraduate architectural thesis exploring the ruin and rejuvenation of the library in the Information Age.
Age of Ruins
Second Skin
Egoskeleton: a wearable for spatial and surveillance awareness.
Second Skin
Cultural Prosthetics
A series of design interventions playing with the body-space relationship.
Prototypes
Prevention Pocket
Avant-guard: an antimicrobial pocket for the prevention of infectious disease.
Pocket Design
Legacy Cities: Detroit
Research project conducted for the J. Max Bond Center that examines the urban relationships between Detroit's rise and decline.
Urban Analysis
Photo synthetics
A collection of remixed relationships between bodies, landscapes and spaces.
Respatialize
MRKT
The design of a culinary incubator and multi-program workspace.
Kinetic Design
Lehman Dormitory
A communal space + dormitory design for Lehman College, Bronx.
Dormitory
Manhattanism
Where congestion equals congregation. Honorable-mention competition winner for Anonymous.d
New York Pilgrammage
Two Houses
A single building with two residences in Brooklyn, New York.
Two Houses
Place
An exploration of place and spatial manifestation
Place
Hello
Google Assistant
ESCAPE POD
RECEPTIVE SKINS
The future of grocery
IKEA 2050
SPATIAL FLUX
F.A.S.T.
Pneumanus
HACKING FARMING
CROWDSOURCING PERCEPTION
SMART COMMUNAL SPACES
FUTURE OF KITCHENS
Bits + Blocks Lab
BERGAMO EMOTION
Spy-der
INFLATABLES
BKSK
SEA
DIGIPRESENCE
GRACENOTE
LIBRARY IN RUIN
EGOSKELETON
PROSTHETICS
Avant Guard
Detroit
Photosynthetics
MRKT
DORMITORY
MANHATTANISM
TWO HOUSES
PLACE