energy, environment, design
Weatherviz: environmental data - driven sculpture by Eric Carlson. (image courtesy of Joel Rogers.)
Every activity uses energy. Smart energy use that minimizes consumption of fossil fuels is the heart of sustainable design and the key to slowing global warming. We focus on building and transportation energy – saving initiatives.
We develop sustainable design strategies and plans for facilities and transportation systems incorporating renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. We also create communications, outreach and education programs and media that support many of these energy saving strategies.
November 7th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments Off
Video of weatherviz preview now playing.
We live in soup of streaming data. Weatherviz is an experiment to capture some of that data and make it more tangible through the medium of kinetic art. The weatherviz system has gathered radar images from very recent weather events throughout the territorial United States. It then employs these images to drive a large, kinetic [...]
The old line goes “Everybody complains about the weather but no one does anything about it.” We’re doing something about this! Our art and technology project, called weatherviz, captures and makes visible a small slice of the river of meteorological data constantly flowing around us. It is an automated system that downloads weather information and uses robotics to drive a large kinetic sculpture. The whole production will ultimately be accessible over the Internet.
Does styling matter? The car crazed, including me, can’t have missed a styling trend of the past several years where the bottom line of the rear quarter window in a sedan, coupe, or crossover swoops upward, rather than being more or less parallel with the rest of the side window. This styling device, called a Hoffmeister kink, after its [...]
How often do novels portray middle aged scientists and technologists? Moreover, those in the thrall of solar energy? Just finished Ian McEwan’s novel, Solar. Michael Beard, the protagonist, is a Nobel winning physicist with a messy personal life and is on the downside of his career. McEwan paints a comic portrait of a formerly brilliant, still [...]
