Current Affairs

Tasked this week to come up with a post relating to an interaction more personal to me, I started thinking about how I spend my weekends - I like to go kayaking, with a club based out at Blyth within sight of a project Newcastle Universities Culture Lab put together last year.

"Current" is a simple premise, expressing the wind energy available on a coastal site as a sort of light show embodied within a series of beach huts. I like this installation, certainly more than I like the IDP designed beach huts themselves. With a history of wind generation on the site the installation gives a visual representation to the element and reacts in real time to changes.

Its a simple idea, I wondered weather we could do something similar to express human presence within buildings? Could we use piezo-electric devices to convert the vibrations from foot steps on a floor to power a visual or aural expression of the that persons movement within the building facade? Could we even take this notion further to map working relationships within an office or studio?