Environment 2.0 Creative Assemblages
Here you can find a research survey of creative, interdisciplinary projects on energy, climate and environmental sustainability. The case studies are drawn from contemporary art, consumer products, policy intervention and community events, and vary in terms of disciplinary contributors, forms of collaboration, outputs and outcomes, and approaches to engagement. Some of the most exciting groupings discovered are both loose and open, involving a dynamically shifting cast of contributors ranging from core project partners to network members and ad hoc participants, and a diverse range of outcomes.
By FutureEverything (futuresonic), Lancaster University, Goldsmiths, University of Exeter. Funded by CREATOR, a EPSRC Digital Economies cluster.
Projects
artcircolo
artcircolo (Dr. Serafine Lindemann, Kalle Laar, Dr. Bernd Wiemann, Dr. Ludwig Braun)
A project where a microphone was positioned at the top of a glacier that members of the public could phone up to hear the sounds of the environment.
Weather Permitting
Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff
Weather Permitting attempts to use the arts to communicate the significant impact of scientific research on climate change to wider audiences.
Hello Weather
Andrea Polli, Chuck Varga, Heidi Neilson, Natalie Campbell, Younji Choi
Hello Weather establishes professional weather stations at arts centres and other public spaces. There are currently two in operation in New York City.
The Cloud Shape Classifier
Cloud Shape Classifier presents an online bank of digital images of the sky that are routinely captured and then presented within a simple online interface
Arctic Listening Post
Jane D Marsching and collaborator Matthew Nolan
Arctic Listening Post, is a multi-layered piece that centres on the cultural history of the Arctic
Talking about the Weather
Talking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media art project collecting the world’s biggest collection of breath, to blow back global warming.
Janine Randerson: Remote Senses: Storms Nearby
A video projection installation that uses scientific data in the form of daylight processed images.
Weather Gauge
John Thomson and Alison Craighead
Weather Gauge is an artwork that uses live numerical weather data from over 150 countries. It shows temperature, time and location in cyclical rotations, creating a proliferation of digitized information on screen.
The Weather Project
Olafur Eliasson, Susan May, (Curator atTate Modern), Maeve Polkinhorn, (Project Assistant.)
The Weather Project used light and steam to create representations of the sun and sky in the expanse of the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern.
Weather Report: Art and Climate Change
Weather Report was a major art exhibition on art and climate change. Weather Report was the largest component of the 2007 EcoArts event, which brought together major science, environmental, arts, and other organizations to increase awareness about clima
Roadside Garden Taipei
Andrea Polli, Dr. Chung-Ming Liu and various collaborators
A desktop application that downloads and visualizes daily amounts of CO (carbon monoxide) in the atmosphere in Taipei.
Velowala.org
Design Studios: Quicksand , CoDesign Studio, BOX Design + Research, Basic Love Of Things:B.L.O.T
A media archive for bicycle dependent commerce featuring contributions of images, video or written words from people across the world.
The Living City
A research project exploring how buildings across cities and countries could eventually develop the capacity to 'talk' to one another, or to communicate information gathered by sensors.
The Power Cart
An energy generator on wheels, with a battery pack on the inside of it which is charged both by a solar panel and a hand crank.
Category: Cities & Transport
Tags: Art, Collaborative, Design, Modifiable, Ongoing, Provocation
Air
Preemptive Media and Beatriz da Costa
A participatory project in which people can monitor and share data on air pollution in urban environments using custom-made DIY devices.
Category: Cities & Transport
Tags: Accessible, Art, Collaborative, Design, Participatory, Provocation, Utility
The Real Costs
A Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce websites to calculate the carbon emissions generated by a flight.
Category: Cities & Transport
Tags: Accessible, Design, Interactive, Ongoing, Provocation, Utility
FRUIT
Free Soil: Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, and Nis Rømer with international collaborators
Artwork on the path of oranges from the orange groves to the consumer, featuring FRUIT wrappers placed on the oranges, a website, and a travelling installation.
Category: Cities & Transport
Tags: Art, Collaborative, Design, International, Provocation, Public
Feral Trade
Kate Rich, network of suppliers, traders couriers and customers.
An artist-run grocery business trading goods along social networks, featuring a website that documents feral trade products in circulation.
Category: Cities & Transport
Tags: Art, Collaborative, Community, International, Ongoing, Participatory
Walking House
A modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment.
Milk
A locative art project that traces how milk from Latvian cows is transported, processed and eventually consumed in another part of the world.
ERARAT
EcoArtTech (Carry Peppermint & Christine Nadir)
The rover is a solar-powered and GPS enabled video installation that projects video's including risk and 'threat level' related data onto nearby architectural and natural surfaces.
Cape Farewell
Cape Farewell plus various participants
An annual art/science expedition that takes artists and scientists on a journey to the world's tipping points.
TippingPoint
Tipping Point, artists and researchers
TippingPoint offers a range of activities centred on a series of meetings involving very high quality, intense dialogue between artists, scientists and others.
World Without Oil
Ken Eklund Jane McGonigal, Dee Cook, Marie Lamb, and Michelle Senderhauf
World Without Oil simulated the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis in the form of an online game
The Yes Men
An art-activist intervention in which a Yes Men member posed as Shepard Wolff, a Representative of the National Petroleum Council at Canada's largest oil conference.
I-Task
A decentralized network of individuals and organisations working collaboratively in the fields of art, engineering, science and technology
Sustainable Indulgence
Sustainable Indulgence is a solar powered ice cream stall. It is manufactured entirely from found and recycled materials.
foAM
A series of gatherings about a human world, which is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and living in a fertile symbiosis with the rest of the planet.
Category: Sustainability & Energy
Tags: Advocacy, Design, International, Ongoing, Participatory
Environment 2.0
FutureEverything, Lancaster University, Met Office, and Natural History Museum
A curatorial and research project on art, the environment and social media, featuring mass participation projects on the environment, biodiversity and urban climate.
Pachube
Usman Haque, Chris Burman, Ai Hasegawa, Sam Mulube and additional collaborators
A web service that enables users to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world.
PowerTab
Energy Aware Technology Inc. designed by One Oak Design
A wireless domestic meter designed to display real-time electricity usage in the home and allow electricity providers to send messages or alerts to users.
Future Currents
A design team worked with householders and energy experts to understand domestic energy practices and to understand how to make design interventions into such practices.
Category: Home & Products
Tags: Collaborative, Community, Industry, Product Design, Utility
Element
Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Gyllenswärd
An innovative radiator design that uses light bulbs as both a heat source and as a visible indication of energy use.
The Energy Curtain
Anders Ernevi, Margot Jacobs, Ramia Mazé, Carolin Müller, Johan Redström, Linda Worbin
A window shade that absorbs sunlight during the daytime and then emits patterned light during the night.
Ecobutton
Once pressed, the Ecobutton puts the computer into a power saving mode to ensure the computer is using the least amount of power possible.
Edible Estates
Haeg transforms the front garden of houses into spaces for the small scale production of food produce such as onions, red cabbage, cherries, oregano, pears, mint and so on.
Category: Home & Products
Tags: Accessible, Art, Community, Local, Participatory, Utility
People Powered
An organization that designs experimental projects that brings together art, environmentalism and communities, its projects include Soil Starter, Loop, Pocket Gardens and Shared.
Energy Saving Adaptor
Gilles Belley & EDF Design Department
An electrical power strip indicates when an attached device is on standby, and switches the device off if the user has not done so in three minutes.
Power-Peg
An electricity power cord/adaptor that automatically cuts of the power supply to a device plugged into it when it has been fully charged.
Sahara Eco Shower
A design projects creating a shower system that recycles water and reheats it to provide a more water efficient way of showering.
Kambrook Axis Kettle
Kambrook & the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
A design project which aims to change the way people use a kettle by incorporating a range of design features.
Buried Light
Rachel Wingfield, Hiaz Gimachi, Greta Corke
An installation in which the surface of the wallpaper mediates the daily usage of electrical power through aesthetic patterns that continually change.
Waterbot
Employing visual and auditory cues, the Waterbot enables users to track their water usage and encourage more efficient water usage practices.
Building Dashboard
A web based technology that provides real-time display of building resource usage in order to improve the environmental performance of buildings.
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