Security

• First we need to know what we are protecting ourselves from, and what does it mean to be insecure.
• Insecurity and fear results from absence of knowledge, from the unknown.
• Criminals hides their identity
• There are 2 different ways to gain security
• First is to increase the division between familiarity and the unknown. Setting up boundaries and gates in a process of self-denial. “What we do not know does not harm us”. Example: a castle, a stronghold, imperial China (the great wall)
• Second way is to be curious and actively gain understanding of the unknown: progress. Example: Columbus, human race as a whole, if we know everything there is to know about something, than it doesn’t scare us anymore
• Rather than dealing with the act of prevention and denial of access, security here is represented by an increase in self-awareness prior to gaining awareness of the surrounding,

Solution

• Self-awareness is achieved through self-reflection, the ability to locate one’s self in a certain situation/context/and in relation to one another.
• Augmented reality
• Overlaying digital information onto the physical world
• Make the physical world transparent, increase social connectiveness and eliminate physical boundaries
• A system of augmented awareness
• A layer of street installation
• Not passive systems, but interactive systems to heighten awareness
• Register movements, paths, patterns
• Proximity sensors, motion sensors, heat sensors, sound sensors
• Provide information through augmented reality
• Information representation through digital mobile devices
• Projections
• LED
• Sound
• Make possible/provide convenience to social activities, events

The Project

Focuses on a specific mechanism for increasing self-awareness

Tackling a certain sensory experience

Sample/Inspirations

Sargasso Fields – Philip Beesley

A  two-week intensive workshop was staged August 2009 at the Royal Academy of Denmark, led by experimental architects and educators Philip Beesley and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen. The structure was reinstalled in Brussells for the Pluto New Media festival October 2009, and then was re-mounted for the Climate and Architecture exhibition in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Summit COP 15.  

Twenty-five architecture students investigated primary qualities of a responsive, sensitive architecture through cycles of making and designing.  The expanded, lightweight layers within this kinetic field are organized like a coral reef, as densely massed organisms Calls and responses ripple throughout this environment, stirring diffuse ripples of filtered air that trickle through the space.Power cells arrayed within a bamboo and silk ‘geotextile’ array at the lower levels of this stratified environment created their own power, generating small shivers and blinks that call out to the upper ‘parent’ layer of lightweight structure. The lower layer is radically diffuse, acting as a condensation layer that would harvest energy and support renewed fertile growth in the future. Suspended proximity sensors and touch sensors from the upper layer register these weak signals and amplify them through arrays of microprocessor-driven actuated components

Light - Richard Box

FIELD , an installation by Richard Box , an artist in residence in the physics department at the University of Bristol, is a major undertaking which includes the installation of several thousand ready- made glass fluorescent tubes. The tubes are ‘planted’ at the foot of an electricity pylon, and pick up the waste emission from the overhead power line causing the tubes to glow when an electrical voltage is set up across it. The result is a field of light sabers that is just amazing and makes visible what would otherwise go unnoticed.

Field of Light (eden project) – Bruce Munro