Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar: Game and Interaction

Schedule:

5:30 pm: Kim Halskov (Digital Urban Living) y  Jan Edler and Tim Edler (Realities United)
7 pm: Presentation of the projects Asalto (with Daniel Canogar) and Entramado - Plaza de Luz (with Pablo Valbuena)
7:10 pm: Break
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Roundtable debate

> Go to Seminar Documentation (downloadable videos and papers) 

Kim Halskov: Designing Engaging Urban Interaction

Aarhus By Light. Photo: Rune Nielsen - CAVI

"In my presentation I will address some of the design challenges concerning the design of engaging urban interaction. When designing urban interaction we face a number of challenges concerning physical integration, complexity of content, kinds of social interaction, value and intentions, emerging and unintended use, multiple stakeholders, etc.

The presentation will draw on some of the media facades from our research centre Digital Urban Living:

· Aarhus by Light:  A media facades part of the Concert Hall Aarhus, which invites guests and passers-by to encounter and partake in a new dimension of the renowned cultural institution. Luminous creatures live in the facade. As you approach, you enter their world which is it self part of the city. The creatures are social beings like ourselves, and they enjoy our company - most of the time...

· Climate on the Wall: During the climate conference Beyond Kyoto, citizens of Aarhus could engage themselves in the struggle for large-scale climate improvements by using Climate on the Wall, an interactive generator of climate statements that uses Ridehuset, a prominent building in the city centre, as a backdrop.

· Dynamically Transparent Windows: The facade of a major department store on a busy high street has been fitted with so-called electro-chromatic foil that can change from opaque to transparent when an electric current runs through it. By using strips or rectangles of the foil, narrow bands on the façade interactively change and reveal what is on display in the store in order to draw the by-passers."

Jan Edler and Tim Edler: realities:united

"Spots" by realities:united. Berlin, 2005. Photo: Bernd Hiepe Fotografie. Under Creative Commons By.

Since 1997 the Edler brothers work together as architects and artists. In 2000 they founded their studio realities:united in Berlin.

BIX, a light- and media facade at Kunsthaus Graz in 2003 has hallmarked their international breakthrough. Recent works were SPOTS, an urban media installation at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin; MuseumX, a temporary urban installation for Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, as well as two permanent media façade installations in Singapore: AAmp and Crystal Mesh.

In various projects they have been and are cooperating with major architectural offices such as Bjarke Ingels Group, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Foster & Partners, MASS Studies, Nieto Sobejano and WOHA. Recent awards include the Hans Schäfer Preis from the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the Kunstpreis (Art Prize) Berlin 2009 - section architecture by the Academy of the Arts Berlin.

Aside from their project-related work both of them have taught at/for various institutions such as the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, the Technische Universität Berlin or the Pasadena Art Center College in Los Angeles. Until 2008 Tim Edler held a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.
 
www.realities-united.de