Category: Urban+Light

Scanario: Street light to theater lights

複数（８本程度？）の見かけは普通の街灯と、それが照らす街路、住宅地の一角、商店街、または郊外の私鉄駅前を想定。

Seitinger のARライトのような色、光のエリアが変更可能な街灯を想定。

どのような操作を、どういうユーザなら行うのだろうか？

  1. 複数の別種のユーザ
  2. １のユーザの組み合わせ（１がｘｘしているところに２がくる。。）の状況

を考えてみる。

Scenario:POKE

For: Housing Complex (includes open space), Park, Museum

ユーザが庭や美術館の前を歩いていると、家族にその知らせが届く。

家族は（家にある端末や携帯から）ユーザに光のpokeをすることができる。その際の色、照明の時間軸上の変化パターンはカスタマイズできる。

  • この、色とパターンは、
    • ユーザが登録していたものを家族が光らせるのか？
    • 家族が自分で作ったものを光らせるのか？
    • ユーザが登録していたもの＋家族が作ったもの、の相乗的なものか？その場合、相手にそれがわかるか？
      • 時間軸があるのなら、２パターンのモーふぃんぐ
  • 同じしくみを、トリガーをユーザがひくものと考えると、改札のシナリオになる。

Liberated Pixels: Alternative Narratives for Lighting Future Cities,Susanne Seitinger, PhD Thesis, 2010

Dissertation Defense
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  • Liberated pixels : alternative narratives for lighting future cities (Read only PDF)
    • http://susanne.media.mit.edu/node/34
    • Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61935
    • Abstract
      • Lighting and illuminated displays shape our relations to urban environments and to one another at night and increasingly during the day by transforming what Kevin Lynch referred to as the “image of the city” (1964). Today, the wide-spread availability of LEDs (light-emitting diodes) in combination with embedded, miniaturized computation offer different ways of designing ambient infrastructures. In this dissertation, I explore these alternatives to exploit the programmable and responsive capabilities of LED-based, low-resolution systems. In short, I examine the alternative aesthetic and communications opportunities afforded by a new generation of lighting and display technologies in the city.I investigate the origins of lighting and displays to illustrate how they have evolved through a complex interleaving of the social and the material. This grounding leads me to develop three design explorations that focus on addressability, mobility and programmability. The first of these explorations, Urban Pixels, presents a wireless network of individual, autonomous physical pixels that can be deployed on any surface in the city. The second, Light Bodies, reconnects with the history of lights-on-people like lanterns that travel through the city with their users. The third, augmented-reality street lighting, provides a layer of programmability for existing infrastructural networks.

        Together the historical perspective and design interventions lead to a performative framework of what I call “liberated pixels”, a new generation of lighting and display technologies. Liberated pixels can be placed flexibly within any context and recruited in different situations for aesthetic and ambient information purposes. This vision captures the contingent and emergent nature of “sociomaterial assemblages” (Suchman 2007) to chart holistic technical, aesthetic, and social directions for future infrastructures of “imageability” (Lynch 1964) in the city.

Scenarios for Ars Electronica Center

TOPOFILIA.

Overrall concept is: By connecting place and the lighting system interactivery, put the building into the broad experience happens the area. Hence make the building from Background to Foreground of the life.

1)Twitter Pulse/ Mood

Con: Currently speed of the flow of related #tag is quite slow.

Pulse(with speed of flow) with color of mood(of the content)?

2)Light message for locals

Package of light.

2-1)

By Slit-scaning a picture from a phone. This effect adds time-axis to a picture. User may draw a pattern onto paper and take a shot of it.

Slit-scanning method creates linear pattern and a bit boring. So how about adding ‘twist’ effect? (by whom?)

2-2)

Audio message. Lighting visualizes the audio as histogram? User should be on site and wait a bit for the light is going to morph to the audio message.

a)QR code is sent. Receiver shall go visit the museum facade and show QR code on mobile phone’s screen and put it at scanner. Then audio (just for around the scanner) and histogram-animation( on the facade LED) appears.

3)Useful lighting

should include ‘unexpected encounter’ and/or ‘familiar stranger’ function into the app

->Simplified.

Light culumn corresond to the proole nearby

When you simile at the building, the light column arise.(Distance from the building arise)