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Title: Freestyle Wandering Machine Category: #responsiveenvironments Author: Dominik Strzelec, Galo Moncayo Year: 2011 Url: http://echoechonoisenoise.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/freestyle-wandering-maschine/ Description: Driven by immediate surrounding, machine deposits material while sensing and moving within it’s territory. Traces left by it’s passing alter the landscape it operates within step by step. Instant decisions solidify, aggregate and therefore shift or constrain its possible future trajectories. Moving away from industrial precision towards almost primitive, still mediated digitally ways of constructing and articulating the space poses a question wether material traces of networked culture have to be necessarily highly technological. Matter, whether tangible or virtual becomes a medium of record. Since there is no other blueprint than the behavior itself, resulting shapes gain their specificity from tool resolution, medium fidelity and saturation of generative processes leaving them as traces.

Title: Freestyle Wandering Machine

Category: #responsiveenvironments

Author: Dominik Strzelec, Galo Moncayo

Year: 2011

Url: http://echoechonoisenoise.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/freestyle-wandering-maschine/

Description: Driven by immediate surrounding, machine deposits material while sensing and moving within it’s territory. Traces left by it’s passing alter the landscape it operates within step by step. Instant decisions solidify, aggregate and therefore shift or constrain its possible future trajectories. Moving away from industrial precision towards almost primitive, still mediated digitally ways of constructing and articulating the space poses a question wether material traces of networked culture have to be necessarily highly technological. Matter, whether tangible or virtual becomes a medium of record. Since there is no other blueprint than the behavior itself, resulting shapes gain their specificity from tool resolution, medium fidelity and saturation of generative processes leaving them as traces.

Title: Modular Algae Photo-bioreactor Category: #nextnature Author: Christopher Chak Sun Lee Year: 2011 Url: http://chris-studio.blogspot.com/2011/05/modular-algae-photo-bioreactor.html Description: Algae production wall. The purpose of this wall is to design as an interactive system which allows the general public to understand the production cycle of algae. Built in a series of parallel walls, the suspending algae modular system could be constructed below any long span open structure frame. As visitors talking journeys between the walls in their different production cycle, they will begin to understand how algae photo-bioreactor works and their application toward zero carbon bio-fuel.

Title: Modular Algae Photo-bioreactor

Category: #nextnature

Author: Christopher Chak Sun Lee

Year: 2011

Url: http://chris-studio.blogspot.com/2011/05/modular-algae-photo-bioreactor.html

Description: Algae production wall. The purpose of this wall is to design as an interactive system which allows the general public to understand the production cycle of algae. Built in a series of parallel walls, the suspending algae modular system could be constructed below any long span open structure frame. As visitors talking journeys between the walls in their different production cycle, they will begin to understand how algae photo-bioreactor works and their application toward zero carbon bio-fuel.

Title: Building a BigRep Strap machine Category: #digitalfabrication Author: Le bigRep Year: 2011 Url: http://lebigrep.org/about/ Description: Inspired by the RepRap Project, the idea arose of having a machine which could actually produce objects exceeding the dimension of objects produced by desktop fabbing devices as the RepRap, Makerbot. This project is about building a Repstrap kind of machine with a approx. build-envelope of 1m^3, designed with a focus on openness, extensibility and lots of room for experimentation.

Title: Building a BigRep Strap machine

Category: #digitalfabrication

Author: Le bigRep

Year: 2011

Url: http://lebigrep.org/about/

Description: Inspired by the RepRap Project, the idea arose of having a machine which could actually produce objects exceeding the dimension of objects produced by desktop fabbing devices as the RepRap, Makerbot. This project is about building a Repstrap kind of machine with a approx. build-envelope of 1m^3, designed with a focus on openness, extensibility and lots of room for experimentation.

Title: Prospero, the robot farmer

Category: #roboticecologies #swarmrobotics

Author: Dorhout R&D

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.dorhoutrd.com/home/prospero_robot_farmer

Description: Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory and is the first of four steps. It is meant to be deployed as a group or “swarm”. The other three steps involve autonomous robots that tend the crops, harvest them, and finally one robot that can plant, tend, and harvest—autonomously transitioning from one phase to another.

Title: Clever Home

Category: #homecomputing #computerlearning

Author: Tom Lynch

Year: 2011

Description: Intelligent (computer learning) home automation systems, require human feedback in order to make changes to their control patterns.  As the automation system becomes harmonised with the occupants’s patterns, the occupants may become ambivalent to their own needs.  How then will the system stimulate the occupant’s feedback?

Title: Living with Robot

Category: #speculativedesign

Author: Jae Yeop Kim

Year: 2011

Description: Over the coming years, Robot technology will slowly permeate into our quotidian lives, to the point perhaps of becoming seemlessly integrated, affecting or even mediating our relationship with others. This experimental video depicts what it might feel like if robots were involved in our most personal affairs: Eroticism, jealousy, obsession and unfaithfulness.

Title: Bloom

Category: #responsiveenvironments #smartmaterial

Author: Doris Kim Sung, USC

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.emanate.org/

Description: Doris Kim Sung wants to make buildings that automatically respond to changes in the environment. “For a long time, her work has examined why architecture is static and nonresponsive, and why it can’t be more flexible like clothing,” Sung said. “Why do we have to adapt to architecture rather than architecture responding to us? Why can’t buildings be animated?”
Sung hit upon a material that had never before been used in architecture: a metal alloy that responds automatically to changes in air temperature and heat.
Commonly used for the coil in a thermostat, “thermobimetal” is made of two sheets of metal laminated together. Each metal expands at a different rate when heated, curling as the temperature rises and flattening when cooled. But the possibilities for buildings are even broader, especially since thermobimetal is not just completely zero-energy but actually reacts to changing environmental conditions. Imagine a canopy that curls shut when the sun is directly overhead, or a vent that opens automatically to let out hot air when it gets a bit stuffy inside.

Title: Particle Economy

Category: #speculativedesign

Author: Gerrit Kaiser

Year: 2011

Url: http://gerritkaiser.de/particle_economy/

Description: In a resource-starved future where “natural” deposits are depleted, how will we gather vital raw materials? Are there options other than recycling as we know it? Perhaps volcanic eruptions, industrial pollution, oil spills and toxic clouds won’t be viewed as ecological disasters but as economical opportunities. Using advances in biotechnology, geoengineering and robotics, harvesting the extremely diluted minerals scattered all around us might become viable.

Title: Active Phytoremediation Wall System

Category: #responsiveenvironments

Author: Emily Rae Brayton, Ahu Aydogan, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.evolo.us/architecture/bio-mechanical-pod-system-produces-fresh-air/

Description: The Active Phytoremediation Wall System is a modular system of pods, housing hydroponic plants. Its main purpose is to encourage airflow and contribute to the quality of life through its air cleaning capacities. The project is a result of a collaborative research between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.  It is a bio-mechanical hybrid system that produces ‘fresh air’ from within buildings, thereby reducing the energy consumption. Because the plants’ roots are exposed, instead of being buried in soil, the plants’ air-cleaning capacity increases by 200 to 300 percent. The pods themselves are made from vacuum-formed plastic, and the form allows the maximum amount of air to reach the root rhizomes while using the minimum amount of material.

Title: Valse Automatique

Category: #roboticenvironments #soundinstallation

Author: Chris Jeffs, Wolf Deiss & Roman Kühnert of artis GmbH, Steffen Fiedler,  Hermann August Weizenegger, Mihalj »MIKI« Kekenj

Year: 2010

Url: http://www.stephanthiel.com/projects/valseautomatique.html

Description: Valse Automatique is a design performance made to illustrate the symbiosis between humans and technology by translating music to form over the use of a KUKA industrial robot.

Title: AirQualityEgg Category: #participatorysensing #citizensensornetworks #openhardware Author: open source distributed community Open Sensor Network Year: 2012 Url: http://blog.pachube.com/2011/12/you-can-help-build-open-air-quality.html http://blog.pachube.com/2012/01/airqualityegg-people-participating-in.html Description: open air quality sensor network

Title: AirQualityEgg

Category: #participatorysensing #citizensensornetworks #openhardware

Author: open source distributed community Open Sensor Network

Year: 2012

Url: http://blog.pachube.com/2011/12/you-can-help-build-open-air-quality.html

http://blog.pachube.com/2012/01/airqualityegg-people-participating-in.html

Description: open air quality sensor network

Title: Cirriform

Category: #interactiveenvironments #responsiveenvironments

Author: Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno. Future Cities Lab

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.future-cities-lab.net/cirriform/

Description: “Cirriform (noun, plural): transparent cloud formations characterized by narrow feathery bands composed of ice crystals that refract the prevailing colors of the sky. When light interacts with the crystals it produces pulsating auroras and spectacular flowing patterns.”  Cirriform is a site specific installation exploring the intersection of public space, physical computing and interactive architecture. The installation situates itself at the threshold between inside and outside, the digital and the physical, the artificial and the natural. Cirriform activates the building façade and creates a playful, interactive and intellectually engaging experience that draws people to the building. It performs as an attractor capturing and translating the latent energies of its context into visually discernable formations of geometry and ambient light.

Title: H.O.R.T.U.S Category: #ecologicalinteraction #responsiveenvironments Author: Ecologic Studio Year: 2012 Url: http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/index.php Description: HORTUS (Hydro Organisms Responsive To Urban Stimuli) is a new exhibition from ecoLogicStudio that engages with the notions of urban renewable energy and agriculture through a new gardening prototype. Over a four-week growing period, flows of energy (light radiation), matter (biomass, carbon dioxide) and information (images, tweets, stats) will be triggered to induce multiple mechanisms of self-regulation and evolve novel forms of self-organisation. HORTUS proposes an experimental hands-on engagement with these notions, illustrating their potential applicability to the masterplanning of large regional landscapes and the retrofitting of industrial and rural architectural types, as exemplified in the project ‘Regional Algae Farm’ developed by ecoLogicStudio for the Swedish region of Osterlen

Title: H.O.R.T.U.S

Category: #ecologicalinteraction #responsiveenvironments

Author: Ecologic Studio

Year: 2012

Url: http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/index.php

Description: HORTUS (Hydro Organisms Responsive To Urban Stimuli) is a new exhibition from ecoLogicStudio that engages with the notions of urban renewable energy and agriculture through a new gardening prototype. Over a four-week growing period, flows of energy (light radiation), matter (biomass, carbon dioxide) and information (images, tweets, stats) will be triggered to induce multiple mechanisms of self-regulation and evolve novel forms of self-organisation. HORTUS proposes an experimental hands-on engagement with these notions, illustrating their potential applicability to the masterplanning of large regional landscapes and the retrofitting of industrial and rural architectural types, as exemplified in the project ‘Regional Algae Farm’ developed by ecoLogicStudio for the Swedish region of Osterlen

Title: CyberGarden v4 Category: #ecologicalinteraction #responsiveenvironments Author: Ecologic Studio Year: 2011 Url: http://altnresearch.com/2011/06/08/cybergarden-v4/ Description: CyberGarden is an ongoing research project developed by Ecologic Studio. This project represents the 4th iteration and exists as a multilayered, intelligent system that passes information between these layers via material, electronic and biological information.  It utilizes a network of radiation sensors and connected to custom designed and programmed robotic arms and a parametric digital model. The physical prototype and digital model engage in a generative dialogue and co-evolve over the course of each exhibition. The petri dish components are made of translucent perspex and when added to the physical model cause a change in the lighting filed. This in turn will affect the digital plan and triggers the emergence of other gardening components to be designed, cut and added on.

Title: CyberGarden v4

Category: #ecologicalinteraction #responsiveenvironments

Author: Ecologic Studio

Year: 2011

Url: http://altnresearch.com/2011/06/08/cybergarden-v4/

Description: CyberGarden is an ongoing research project developed by Ecologic Studio. This project represents the 4th iteration and exists as a multilayered, intelligent system that passes information between these layers via material, electronic and biological information.  It utilizes a network of radiation sensors and connected to custom designed and programmed robotic arms and a parametric digital model. The physical prototype and digital model engage in a generative dialogue and co-evolve over the course of each exhibition. The petri dish components are made of translucent perspex and when added to the physical model cause a change in the lighting filed. This in turn will affect the digital plan and triggers the emergence of other gardening components to be designed, cut and added on.

Title: Active Patterns

Category: #responsivematerials

Author: AltN Research

Year: 2011

Url: http://altnresearch.com/2011/08/19/active-patterns/

Description: Active Patterns is a study in the use of shape memory polymers as a responsive facade material. The temperature at which the material is determined by them in the lab by altering the ratio of its chemical makeup. The overall “behavior” is thus programmed through the geometry of the pattern cut/scored into the polymer. Future work will focus on quantifying the geometric relationship to the overall movement of the system.

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