Category: Urban+Light

Designer/Artist: Usman Haque

Artworks/Designworks

  • Burble
  • Control.Burble.Remote
  • Primal Source
  • Reconfigurable House 2.0
  • Sky Ear
  • Urban Constellations

Papers

  • Notes on the Design of Participatory Systems – for the City or for the Planet, in Habitar [ PDF, English ] [ PDF, Spanish ] June 2010
    Cooperation is difficult. Even when everybody agrees on an end goal, and even when everybody agrees on what is needed to achieve that end goal, it does not mean that everyone (or even anyone) will be able to take the first step, which is the most important step. Yet, while individualistic behaviour within a group results in short term benefit for the individual, competition between groups (anecdotally) favours those that have more altruistic individuals. This paper discusses the paradoxical structures of collaboration and ways that the paradoxes can be harnessed, illustrated occasionally with concrete, though anecdotal, examples. It is based on no research other than direct experience in trying to build participatory systems (see www.haque.co.uk).
  • Portholes & plumbing: how AR erases boundaries between ‘physical’ & ‘virtual’, Position Paper for W3C Workshop: Augmented Reality on the Web, Christopher Burman & Usman Haque [ PDF ] June 2010
    In this paper we make the case that future ‘augmented reality’ standards should focus on facilitating communications between disparate realities rather than defining how, when or where they are experienced and that standards should be designed expressly to encourage lateral approaches in reality design. In this context, we provide a brief overview of Pachube.com, a web service for storing and sharing sensor, energy and environmental data and the augmented reality application Porthole that helps people make sense of that data.

鞍馬の火祭,京都市左京区,鞍馬（くらま）の由岐（ゆき）神社

from ASAHI.COM

京都市左京区の鞍馬（くらま）の由岐（ゆき）神社に伝わる「鞍馬の火祭」が２２日夜にあった。氏子らがかけ声に合わせて約５００本のたいまつを担いで練り歩き、山門の近くに集結。たいまつの炎を夜空に向けて突き立てると、約８千人の見物客から歓声が上がった。

　祭りは平安時代の９４０年、京都御所にあった祭神を鞍馬まで闇夜に行列で移した様子を表すとされる。（岡田匠）

燃えさかるたいまつが夜空を照らす鞍馬の火祭＝２２日夜、京都市左京区、高橋一徳撮影

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 1995

http://www.amazon.com/Disenchanted-Night-Industrialization-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0520203542/

Amazon.com Review
The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture. Very Highly Recommended.

邦訳はこちら

http://www.amazon.co.jp/闇をひらく光―19世紀における照明の歴史-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276433/

これは続編(20世紀編？）ドイツ語の原書と日本語訳しかない。

http://www.amazon.co.jp/光と影のドラマトゥルギー―20世紀における電気照明の登場-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276441/

Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism, Mirko Zardini(ed), 2005

Product Description

Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue Sense of the City proposes a re-thinking and re-presenting of the city, and offers a more complex analysis of the qualities, comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life. From darkness and night to urban soundscapes, to the urban air and climate, this book presents a new, “sensorial” approach to urbanism. In defense of public spaces in contemporary cities, writer Cedric Price has observed that “mental, physical, and sensory well-being is required.” Included here is a rich collection of images on the different urban themes addressed in the exhibition, along with a series of insightful and critical essays. Contributors include Constance Classen, David Howes, Norman Pressman, Emily Thompson, and Mirko Zardini. Edited by Mirko Zardini. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in./320 pgs / Illustrated throughout.

Wismar Dynamic Lighting Workshop, HFG Wismar+Philips Lighting, 2011

On 9 June 2011, students and advisers fine-tuned the staircase installation. This segment show how the shadows follow our choreography.
Youtube Channel
In March 2011, the Hochschule Wismar, with the support of Philips Lighting, launched a 4th-semester Dynamic Lighting Workshop project to develop creative and technically groundbreaking lighting concepts for public space. The goal was to explore how light brings static surfaces to life, lends dynamism to facades and enlivens buildings. You can read about the entire project on LightCommunity:


http://community.lighting.philips.com/blogs/WismarProjects

The Wismar Dynamic Lighting Workshop presentation was delivered by 22 students on June 10 at Hochschule Wismar, the Faculty of Design and Architecture in northern Germany. This film is a documentation of the installations, produced by students on the Communication and Media course of the school (Professor Jochen Wisotzki).

Staircase group project
Students: Olga Galkova, Fernanda Montecinos, Darío Nuñez, Volha Pakholkava, Natasa Rajic, Menekse Seyma Kaya, Julie Wangsajaya, Linlin Yang

Bridge Group project
Students: Frederik Friederichs, Christine Holzke, Stefan Maassen, Juan Felipe Rivera, Piyanut Siramanakun, Isabella Trybula, Daniel Witzler, Lin Zhang

Facade Group project
Students: Audry Brandsma, Jürgen Eisenhauer, Melanie Heilgeist, Janine Jeserig, Elena Kozlova, Akarsh Mahendra, Vikramaditya Varma

Leni Schwendinger, ‘Fusing Art+Design with Light”Lighting Urbanist’

Interview

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20080618/leni-schwendinger

World-saving mission: To redefine the public realm that seemingly belongs to no one—like the sidewalks of New York City. To the citizen, the streets and sidewalks are not owned and not designed.

Her Studio’s main page

http://www.lightprojectsltd.com/

Youtube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/LightProjectsLTD

Blog: Light Walk

http://lenischwendinger.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/islington-after-dark-a-london-lightwalk/

SpectraScape:

As youLight it: Leni Schwendinger

Tribute in Light, Municipal Art Society and Creative Time of NYC, 2002-present

http://mas.org/programs/tributeinlight/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_in_Light

Tribute in Light, being projected on Sept. 11, 2009, from the ProPublica office on One Exchange Plaza


Tribute in Light was first presented on March 11, 2002, six months after the attacks, and MAS has presented it annually since. Comprising eighty-eight 7,000-watt xenon light bulbs positioned into two 48-foot squares that echo the shape and orientation of the Twin Towers, Tribute in Light is assembled each year on a roof near the World Trade Center site. The illuminated memorial reaches 4 miles into the sky and is the strongest shaft of light ever projected from earth into the night sky. See this list of great Viewing Locations.

It was independently conceived by several artists and designers who were brought together under the auspices of MAS and Creative Time. Tribute was designed by John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould, Julian Laverdiere and Paul Myoda with lighting consultant Paul Marantz. It was originally made possible by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and with the generous assistance of Con Edison.

See and listen to the origins of Tribute in Light and how it is produced annually on September 11.