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Social Distance
How close can people be before co-presence becomes interaction? Change the social radius and watch potential encounters appear.
2 potential encounters
Spatial interaction laboratory / 2026
What happens when interaction design escapes the screen?
HAAM Space studies rooms, streets, thresholds, bodies, distance, attention and accidental encounters as interfaces.
01 Proxemics
02 Social translucence
03 Trajectories
04 Appropriation
Experiments
Small studies of how space changes behaviour.
02
The Encounterable Café
Seating does more than hold bodies. It decides who is peripheral, who is visible and how easy it is to become part of a conversation.
Low encounter likelihood
03
Translucent Room
Privacy is not binary. A useful social space lets you sense that others are present without turning them into data.
Aware, not exposed
04
Wrong Use
The most alive spaces are often used incorrectly. A stair becomes seating. A ledge becomes a desk. A threshold becomes a meeting place.
Architect's intention
05
Trajectory
A place is not a screen. People arrive with histories, cross thresholds, hesitate, participate, leave and remember. Design the sequence, not just the room.
The first interaction is often with the threshold, not another person.
Working principles
Interaction design, but the interface is the situation.
Design possibility, not obligation.
Good social space raises the chance of contact without demanding performance from everyone inside it.
Make presence legible.
People need subtle cues about others: availability, activity, direction and attention. Not surveillance.
Leave room for wrong use.
Appropriation is evidence that a system is alive. Do not optimize every ambiguity away.
Design through time.
Arrival, waiting, interruption, repetition, departure and memory are interaction materials too.
About
HAAM Space is a laboratory for interaction design after the screen.
It collects experiments in proxemics, social translucence, embodied interaction, architecture, public space, movement and the small conditions that make encounters possible.
Some experiments may become research. Some may become buildings, services or products. Some can stay strange.