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Friday, April 25. 2014

ECAL students create bizarre smart home objects in Milan | #smart?

Before you'll start reading, let me add a missing information: the projects were developed during a full semester by 2nd year bachelor students at the ECAL, under the direction of Profs. Chris Kabel (product design) and Alain Bellet (interaction design).

Via It's Nice That

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By Rob Alderson

Léa Pereyre, Claire Pondard, Tom Zambaz: Mr Time (Image By ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

It’s laudable that designers are working on worthy projects that will have a practical impact on building a better future, but we’re big believers that creatives should be engaged in making tomorrow a bit more fun too. Luckily for us, there are institutions like the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL).

At this year’s Milan Salone, ECAL’s Industrial Design and Media & Interaction Design students unveiled a series of weird and wonderful objects that presented “a playful interpretation take on the concept of the smart home.” These included a clock that mimics the gestures of those looking at it, cacti that respond musically to being caressed, a pair of chairs one of which reacts to the movements of the sitter in the other, a tea spoon that won’t be separated from its mug and a fan that is powered by the amplified breath of the homeowner.

It’s fair to say that some of these creations are completely impractical, but they all raise questions about our future interaction with household objects and they do so in the quirkiest way possible.

Iris Andreadis, Nicolas Nahornyj, Jérôme Rütsche: Ostinati (Image ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

Romain Cazier, Anna Heck, Leon Laskowski: Bonnie & Clyde (Image ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

Anne-Sophie Bazard, Tristan Caré, Léonard Golay: Il Portinaio (Image ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

Léa Pereyre, Claire Pondard, Tom Zambaz: Chiaroscuro (Image by ECAL/Axel Crettenand)

Victor Férier, Ludovica Gianoni, Danièle Walker: Windblower (Image by ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

Megan Elisabeth Dinius, Timothée Fuchs, Antoine Furstein, Bastien Girschig: Voodoo (Image by ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

Pierre Charreau, Martin Hertig, Pauline Lemberger: Cactunes (Image ECAL/Axel Crettenand & Sylvain Aebischer)

Wednesday, April 04. 2012

Paranoid Shelter - (Globale Surveillance)

By fabric | ch

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Paranoid Shelter, beta testing, residency at the EPFL-ECAL Lab (late summer and winter 2011)

PARANOID SHELTER

Paranoid Shelter is a recent installation / architectural device that fabric | ch finalized later in 2011 after a 6 months residency at the EPFL-ECAL Lab in Renens (Switzerland). It was realized with the support of Pro Helvetia, the OFC, the City of Lausanne and the State of Vaud. It was initiated and first presented as sketches back in 2008 (!), in the context of a colloquium about surveillance at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Being created in the context of a theatrical collaboration with french writer and essayist Eric Sadin around his books about contemporary surveillance (Surveillance globale and Globale paranoïa --both published back in 2009--), Paranoid Shelter revisits the old figure/myth of the architectural shelter, articulated by the use of surveillance technologies as building blocks

Doing so, it states that contemporary surveillance is in a “de facto” relation with the old myth of the shelter and that it can be considered as a contemporary way to build it, yet in a total different way, somehow problematic because it usually mixes public and private interests, freedom and penalty or censorship and remains unclear.

Therefore, filled with monitoring technologies and exploring their formal potential (the main formal aspects are “autological”: the materialisation of the cones of vision from the surveillance cameras fixed on a frame that evokes public infrastructure) as well as their functional incidence (a tele-"neo-nomad" condition?), the project also comments about "smartness" as Paranoid Shelter is composed of the same ingredients : active, mediated, monitored or scrutinized, possibly robotized and sometimes "intelligent". Consequently, it points out the links between “smartness” and surveillance that can’t be undervalued (what is the status of the data that are collected? what are the inner natures of codes and softwares that drive the behaviours of the architecture?)

"Smartness" is undoubtedly a coming way to architecture space largely debated in specialized circles. Will this be the work of the architect or the engineer is still to be decided (following the heritage of architectural critic from the 60ies Reyner Banham, we state it should mainly be designed by the architect and implemeted in close relation with the engineer). It is, along with parallel questions about sustainability, digital design & fabrication, code, weather, robotics and possibly "geo-engineering", one of the hot topics within the recent architectural debate that will drive the evolution of the discipline.

As with surveillance, "smartness" will generate data, it will leave "traces" and "tracks". This latter inevitably led to raise the same issues as those related to the privacy (or not) of personal data. The statuses of data, codes and technologies are, in fact, a real issue for society in general and for architecture in particular. To envision the question, just think about a public space monitored by a private company that owns and uses the data for marketing purposes (we all know this already) or a private home where all the data and images are openly released on the networks (next frontier for some hackers). Worse: a state that sells its monitored but non-nominal public information to companies for them to build commercial products. We are confronted to a confusion of gender, at best an hybridization.

Paranoid Shelter articulates and objectifies the idea of surveillance/smartness as one of the main vectors of transformation in our contemporary space: while responding to none of the traditional ways to describe a shelter (Paranoid Shelter doesn't protect you from rain or cold, it doesn't really protect you neither from any physical danger but can maybe anticipate it), while being nearly totally transparent and mostly immaterial, it is nonetheless totally different to stand inside its layered frames and limits than to stand outside them. If an outside does, indeed, still exist. The space is changed and architected by the means of invisible codes, behaviours and is mediated through the channels of technologies and networks.

With Paranoid Shelter, the code is obviously an integral part of the architecture and its status tries to be clear: custom created by the design team (architects and scientists) for the project along with its physical parts, the code is in this case part of the structure and the author’s work. The raw data, generated by the public and that drives the reactivity of the spatial device, are public and fully open to any other public use. It is a shared common space where the infrastructure is made available to the public but doesn’t belong to him, the space and data do.

Paranoid Shelter demonstrates the fact that a piece of code and technology should indeed be considered as architecture, that it transforms the nature of space and our experience of it, like previous technologies did (electricity, artificial lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, etc.), but also like walls and windows can do. It suggests new ways of living too, nearly tribal within an equally new, partly immaterial, open and mediated shelter.

Paranoid Shelter can be displayed either as an architectural installation of its own (museum), where its programs let it behave in an autonomous and "intelligent" way, or as a scenographic architecture, on stage (theatre) in the context of collaborations and where it is driven by different programs that are (mostly) remotely controlled.

Paranoid Shelter building blocks are (hardware):

- 3 network (surveillance) cameras, w. night shot functionalities

- 1 network (surveillance) PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) camera

- 3 embeded microphones

- 2 libellium wireless network sensors boards

- 3 temperature sensors

- 2 light sensors

- 1 humidity sensor

- 1 pressure sensor

- 1 CO2 level sensor

- 1 O2 level sensor

- 1 pollution sensor

- 1 dust sensor

- 1 dedicated wifi access point ("paranoid hotspot")

- 6 dmx controllable led lights

- 1 lcd led acreen (1920x1080), 2nd optional.

- (optional) 1 beamer 1280x800, 4000lm.

- 1 air conditioned servers' cabinet

- servers, lanboxes

- a set of inox cables

- an overall inox frame

- some books

- some blankets

Paranoid Shelter other building blocks are (custom softwares, codes & data):

- quantity of mouvement & camera tracking

- areas' occupation, heat zones

- moving objects' location

- presence/absence counting / per overall object and surrounding / per sub zones

- normal/abnormal behaviours

- sound patterns recognition, "gunshot tracking"

- noise level

- sound location

- atmosphere monitoring

- normal/abnormal atmosphere

- wifi monitoring ("snooping")

- "intelligent" behaviours, set of rules, scripts and codes

- spatial uses' data

Pictures: Patrick Keller, Nicolas Besson, Alban Van Wassenhove

On stage with Laure Wolf + Gurshad Shaheman (actors). Used as a scenographic space/device, in the context of Eric Sadin's theatrical, Globale Surveillance. CDN (Centre Dramatique National) / ESAM of Caen in France. March 2012.

The theatrical deals with societal, spatial and theoretical questions within a "global surveillance" context (networks, communications, marketing, health, economy, (state) security).

Team:

Project: Patrick Keller, Christian Babski, Christophe Guignard, Stéphane Carion, Nicolas Besson, Leticia Carmo

Software development: fabric | ch, Computed·By

Digital fabrication, metal: Metoforme SA

Friday, December 03. 2010

Probe Field

Via BLDGBLOG

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by noreply@blogger.com (Geoff Manaugh)

[Image: From "Kielder Probes" by Bob Sheil].

Beginning in 2003, architect Bob Sheil began experimenting with a group of "micro-environmental surveying probes" that he was later to install in Kielder Park, Northumbria, UK.

[Image: From "Kielder Probes" by Bob Sheil].

The probes were "designed to act as dual monitors and responsive artefacts." What does that mean? Sheil explains:

The probes were designed to measure difference over time rather than the static characteristics of any given instance. Powered by solar energy, the probes gathered and recorded ‘micro environmental data’ over time. The probes were simultaneously and physically responsive to these changes, opening out when warm and sunny, closing down when cold and dark. Thus not only did the probes record environmental change, but they demonstrated how these changes might induce a responsive behaviour specific to a single location.

After the probes were installed, they were filmed by "an array of high-resolution digital cameras programmed to record at regular intervals."

[Images: From "Kielder Probes" by Bob Sheil].

The resulting data—which took note of the climatic and solar situations in which the objects began to change—offers insights, Sheil suggests, into how "passively activated responsive architecture" might operate in other sites, under other environmental conditions.

[Images: From "Kielder Probes" by Bob Sheil].

As DIY landscape-registration devices constructed from what appear to be off-the-shelf aluminum plates, they also cut an interesting formal profile above the horizon line, like rare birds or machine-flowers perched amidst the tree stumps.

[Image: From "Kielder Probes" by Bob Sheil].

Posted by Patrick Keller in Architecture, Sustainability, Territory at 10:01

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