Trouble, Data Sculpted Futures, is an interactive sculpture that merges data into matter, whilst exploring ecological futures, fostering curiosity about the climate crisis, and promoting harmonious coexistence through innovative design methods, materials, and fabrication techniques. It was recently showcased as part of Dubai Design Week 2023.
The project adopts a design approach rooted in computational and data-driven technologies to contribute to the discourse on design and ecology. It employs innovative procedural methods that blend human and machine intelligence and fabrication techniques to create harmonious strategies for coexistence.
Central to the installation is the Co2 sand column, generated from a trained generative adversarial network using scrapped Co2 emission cloud imagery. This AI-driven process results in a series of vertically stacked images, intentionally crafted to resemble emission clouds. The cloud column is materialised through the use of 3D printed sand, in collaboration with Sandhelden, transforming the previously intangible and fleeting nature of Co2 clouds into a tangible and tactile reality.
The accompanying timber structure, designed to use traditional wood-to-wood joinery techniques, supports the cloud column and visualises the partnership between analog and digital.
The use of recycled and biomaterials is integral to the design, not only can they be disassembled and reassembled in various locations they can also be recycled or repurposed after use. The intent is to leave the sculpture to slowly decompose, inviting seeds, vegetation, and ecological entities to find a home on and within the sculpture, creating specific micro-climates that could house bee hives or bird/insect shelters. Inviting living systems to respond and rebuild their habitats within our urban landscapes.
Relying on natural composites, which can be locally sourced and constructed, minimises emissions and waste products and advocates for a design process that is imperative in designing for a non-carbon future.
The sculpture's ornamentation, fabrication, and material choices embody a forward-looking, coexistent design philosophy that challenges traditional architectural paradigms, embracing transition influenced by the environment. This installation represents ongoing research and aims to engage a broader audience in a grounded and poetic manner. Through its multi-layered materials, fabrication methods, and interactive elements, it serves as a bridge between the vast scale of climate issues and human-scale solutions, illustrating a potential path forward.
Interactive Sculpture, designed by training AI and constructed with additive manufacturing of sand.
Sand sculpture
Weight: 90kg
Dimensions: 30 cm x 40 cm x 170 cm
design, art, sculpture, interactive, communicate, collaborate, materiality, fabrication, technology, AI, data, ecology, composite, architecture, sand, timber, research, procedural, computational, coexisting, climate change.
Generously supported by the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Fabrication collaboration with Sandhelden
Exhibited at Dubai Design Week Nov 2023,
Published in Growing between the Cracks, Feb 24
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