“Cloudscape“ by german climate engineering firm transsolar and japanese firm tetsuo kondo architects explores the poetic nature of clouds by controlling the microclimate of a space. A layer of artificial clouds are made to hover above the ground level, remaining in balance above the heads of the viewers.
This is a great piece of work - but I’d love to see this sort of thing being used to hint at or display data.
I can’t say what that would be, but if you take network activity as an example the density of the cloud could be linked to the amount of data being passed through the air over the wireless networks in the space. There’s something about the very literal translation of “The Cloud” and “network weather” in this instance. I dunno. Maybe it’s a bit cheesy but hopefully you get the idea. As opposed to the approach famously described by Dan Hill in The Personal Well-Tempered Environment where networked objects, devices and dashboards can display information about themselves and their surroundings it could be interesting to investigate making the climates of spaces evidence the data being created by the objects they contain.
Just a thought.
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