by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer “Visible over a 15-Km radius, Articulated Intersect is meant to amplify participation to an urban scale, creating personalized light sculptures that segment the sky. Inspired by Argentinean Gyula Kosice and Brazilian Lygia Clark’s articulated sculptures from the 40s to 60s this project seeks to create intimacy and complicity in a constantly unfolding […]
Project Description in Spatial Information Design Lab The Million Dollar Blocks is a Data Spatialization/Visualization project that reveals potentials for neighborhood investment strategies by showing relationships between neighborhoods and their being possible origin for high incarceration rates. ” The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities […]
“As people walk around the room they see inside their shadow the live and recorded image of other visitors, while their own image is recorded for live or delayed playback inside the shadow of someone else. The piece includes high resolution surveillance cameras with face recognition and 3D tracking, turning the exhibition room into one […]
Emily Badgers, from The Atlantic, talks about 5 planning moves that could have prevented or at least mitigated some aspects of flooding in New York. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/10/5-ideas-could-have-prevented-flooding-new-york/3754/
Nail Houses are becoming a common sighting in the news about new construction in China. The term was coined in reference to the fact that these houses are like a “stubborn nail” which is difficult to remove; a nuisance essentially. In Beijing in 2004, when confronted with plans for a shopping mall, which would displace […]