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Devices

• Architecture, Devices, Environmental, Kinetic

  Spinning Streetlights

  01.28.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here’s an interesting wind powered streetlight from the Panasonic Center in Tokyo that I found on hyperexperience blog run by Leonardo Bonanni of MediaLab. I’m a big fan of using these Vertical Axis Wind Turbines for integrating into urban skylines when traditional propellers often seem too dramatic.

• Architecture, Bartlett, Devices, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation, robotics

  Michael Wihart - Soft Architectural Machines

  01.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Michael Wihart explored how ecologies of small machines made of nanotechnological and biotechnological elements might be able to swarm together to create architectural space and developed notions of how these spaces might reconfigure over time. Here’s some images of his work and some thoughts of his on the issues he raises.

  “The decadence and redundancy […]

• Architecture, Bartlett, Devices, Scuplture/Installation

  Marcos Cruz - Flesh Architecture

  01.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Marcos Cruz is a practising architect who lives and works in London. He is a co-founder of marcosandmarjan, as well as a Lecturer at the Bartlett UCL (Unit 20). His individual research is dedicated to a future vision of the body in architecture, questioning the contemporary relationship between the human flesh and the architectural flesh. […]

• Architecture, Devices, Environmental, Events, Kinetic, Networked

  Living City

  01.14.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Architects ‘The Living‘ did a great presentation on their design approach to rapid low cost prototyping of interactive environments and construction techniques last year at the ‘Interactive Architecture & Media’ symposium I organised at Eyebeam last February. They’re currently having an exhibition at the Van Alen Institute gallery in New York running till January 18th, […]

• Audio, Devices, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation

  Roots - Roman Kirschner

  10.22.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  My recent work has been influenced a great deal by the work of Cybernetican Gordon Pask (1928-1996)  from his interactive installations to his work with Architects Cedric Price, John Fazer and Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte. Its always interesting to see how Pask’s work continues to inspire a range of contemporary art work so I […]

• Devices, Interactive, Kinetic, Lighting, Scuplture/Installation

  Performative Ecologies - Ruairi Glynn

  07.20.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Performative Ecologies Film 15MbDevelopment of Performative Ecologies Film 25MbWebsite
  Well here’s whats been keeping me busy these past months. I got the opportunity to share my most recent collection of responsive environments, collectively called "Performative Ecologies" at the We Love Technology conference a couple of days ago and now I’ve finally found the time to […]

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