LILIANA MEJIA
Soniedro is public sound capsule that allows viewers/listners to remove themseleves from the hustle and bustle of their activites and immerse themselves in a world of sound and images. While sitting back in the cozy pod and listening to sounds composed by Liliana Mejia, listeners are encouraged to flip through a book of painted "soundscapes" forming associations between what the sounds and what they are seeing. This piece was exhibited in Bagota Colombia.
THE BUREAU OF WORKPLACE INTERRUPTIONS
The Bureau of Workplace Interruptions harnesses interruptive technology to expose the secret possibilities of the workday. As a time-stealing agency, the Bureau works directly with employees to invisibly insert intimate exchange into the flow of the workday. Thei promise is to create interruptions that challenge the needs of their users and the social and economic conditions of the modern workplace.
JESSICA FRELINGHUYSEN
The Acclimation Suit helps wearers become situated to their new environments.
CHRIS KENNEDY
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The Urban Mobile Composter: A portable and collapsable composting shell that enables a user to compost while at work, eating out or on vacation. Versatile. Sleek. Contemporary. Finally a place to store your organic waste amid the hustle and bustle of the city. The mobile urban composter, your answer to your on-the-go‚ composting needs. Perfect for the work-a-day business man, on the move. Simply place waste from restaurants, lunch-breaks and early morning meetings into this handy, mobile composting unit, and in a mere couple of days voilá! nutrient rich compost for you and your garden! Start your day off efficiently with the mobile urban composting unit. Now available in five different colors and three sizes! Click "launch" for pdf poster.
INTEL RESEARCH LAB @ BERKELEY
As humans we live and interact across a wildly diverse set of physical spaces. We each formulate our own personal meaning of place using a myriad of observable cues such as public-private, large-small, daytime-nighttime, loud-quiet, and crowded-empty. Unsurprisingly, it is the people with which we share such spaces that dominate our perception of place. Sometimes these people are friends, family and colleagues. More often, and particularly in public urban spaces we inhabit, the individuals who affect us are ones that we repeatedly observe and yet do not directly interact with – our Familiar Strangers. This research project explores our often ignored yet real relationships with Familiar Strangers. We describe several experiments and studies that lead to a design for a personal, body-worn, wireless device that extends the Familiar Stranger relationship while respecting the delicate, yet important, constraints of our feelings and relationships with strangers in public places.
Jargon_Reducer
NANETTE WYLDE
Jargon Reducer is a handy English language tool which helps you to understand what is really being communicated.
Troubled by an e-mail for a colleague or a lover? Confused by political statements and ad campaigns? Unsuccessful in your grant applications and sabbatical proposals? Jargon Reducer will point you to the crux of the message. Jargon Reducer comes with two poignant functions. The Remover removes jargon, leaving only the uncritical mass of the message. The revealer reveals jargon, emphasizing the keywords of any communication and thus the true and often-times hidden agenda. The remaining text may then be displayed in a variety of formats.
PREMPTIVE MEDIA
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media's portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.
Participants or "carriers" are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other AIR devices in the network. An on-board GPS unit and digital compass, combined with a database of known pollution sources such as power plants and heavy industries, allow carriers to see their distance from polluters as well. The AIR devices regularly transmit data to a central database allowing for real time data visualization on this website.
While AIR is designed to be a tool for individuals and groups to self identify pollution sources, it also serves as a platform to discuss energy politics and their impact on environment, health and social groups in specific regions.
The project launches September 14, 2006, in New York City. A preliminary worskhop was held on June 24. If you live in the New York City area, please visit our Events and Participate pages to see how you can join us in this experiment.