GEOMETRY OF LIVING 1

Daniela Bertol, Ph.D., is a research artist, scholar, author, designer. In the early 1990s she founded SpaceInk a meta-disciplinary art, architecture and design practice with cultural and art production in physical and digital space, encompassing hybrid processes at different scales and media-ranging from computational design, video, land and performance art to artist books, experiential places and fashion. Research and practices are threaded by explorations of the physicality of geometry and its presence not only in the built environment but in life itself. Her works often investigate the relationship between place and human body, from a phenomenological and perceptual view to a social context, extending from the environment to the human body: the performative actions of Healing Geometries interact with a sculptural framework based on the icosahedron and were developed from her doctoral research Form Mind Body Space Time - the Geometry of Human Movement. She is the author of several academic articles, interactive multimedia publications and three books: Visualizing with CAD (1994), Form Geometry Structure: from Nature to Design (2011) and Designing Digital Space (1996), the first book on Virtual Reality in architecture. In 2022 she founded the Sky Spirals Institute, a center of theoretical studies and practices developing art-in-nature places and projects related to naked-eye astronomy whose first site is S.U.N.F.A.R.M. (2001), a phenomenological/symbolic landscape and naked-eye sky-earth observatory located on a 68-acre property in the Hudson Valley (Claverack, New York).