KMD_PhD_Fujimura_Apr26th_2011 PPT
Urban Media Lighting/Open Light
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[Street Light(Wikipedia)][ガス灯][Gas Lighting(Wikipedia)]
•The urban media lighting is a medium consists of physical devices such as LED light, mobile phone and networked sensors combined with mobilephone network to connect users. This combination of hardware, software and service should be a part of public service.
•It supports social stability to resolve a weakness of urban spaces built based on modern urban planning theory: lack of attention to keep, maintain and forge social ties of its users. We can find different types of urban space where social ties between its inhabitants are in danger.
1)In Situ
2)You’ll turn the light
The world has changed to be safer after we get street lights.
Change urban space, again.
This is a photo of old street light. When street lights came to urban space, it ad changed word became a bit safer, After 100 years, with network and sofisticated lighting components, what if we can turn on.off the lights by ourselves? This is my starting point. If we design relation between us and street lights once again, we may change the urban night scape, once again.
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[Familiar Stranger(Wikipedia)] [Familiar Stranger Project, Eric Paulos]
•This is for the place where different type of people come across in daily basis such as Station, Shopping mall, Park, etc in emerging city areas such as suburban new-town or boundary where new city is about to concur old city.
•The users of those places are not aware of each other’s existence because they just moved in or in a situation like groups of people with different demographics are juxtaposed without proper contact points and occasions.
•Or improper urban planning even weaken existing ties and make familiar people unfamiliar.
SO how it can be useful beyond temporary use of public equipment? People in modern urban space have a number of different issues these days. Considering the situation of where and how streetlight are located/stationed, As arc light hits climinals, This open light can tacke into one of these issues.
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•The urban media lighting system provides shared experiences between them with a combination of physical device and network service situated on site. It gives interaction between members of user in two ways. When wants and desires of them cross and conflicts at the site, the system embraces the conflict, and give the users chances to overcome it.
•How an interactive lighting system solve such problems? This is the challenge of this research.
Here I show 2 modern examples of evolution of urban light scape.
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New technologies are coming up. My role is combine those components to be a system to affect our life in urban space.
The challenge is….