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I was watching a TED Talks presentation on 'Architecture that senses and
responds' by Carlo Ratti on www.ted.com, when I was interrupted by sounds of
splashing water in our pool (see my previous post here for what was happening
outside). As usual, this was a stimulating exercise for the mind (well, I mean,
both of them, but here I'm about TED Talks). Here's what the presentation was
about:
"With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by
sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we
make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city
life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving
water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.
Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect who teaches at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. This lab
studies the built environment of cities -- from street grids to plumbing and
garbage systems -- using new kinds of sensors and hand-held electronics that
have transformed the way we can describe and understand cities.
Other projects flip this equation -- using data gathered from sensors to actually
create dazzling new environments. The Digital Water Pavilion, for instance, reacts
to visitors by parting a stream of water to let them visit. And a new project for
the 2012 Olympics in London turns a pavilion building into a cloud of blinking
interactive art."
See the video here (the limit for TED Talk presentations is 18 minutes, this one is about 16):
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