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Amazing talk and project healthmap.org presented by John Brownstein PhD, Clark Freifeld, Mikaela Keller PhD, on Googletechtalks on youtube.

“sad hat l happy hat” is one of design interventions in the “benchspace walk workshop”, part of London architecture festival.

We like London, this city-world full of differences, ethnic variety, colors, textures, sounds; within a block distance the environment can change totally. We are perpetually commuting and when we think about architecture, we think of vertical constructions, enclosing horizontal space.

Sad Hat | Happy Hat from cesar harada on Vimeo.

Naturally we have a tendency to look up when we are happy and down when we are sad. We want to bring emphasis on the ground and the sky, amplifying one’s mood. The “sad hat | happy hat” can be worn in two different ways, happy (looking up) or sad (looking down). The reflective surface inside multiplies the perception of either the sky or the ground.

But what happens when you either look only up or down? You bump into stuff! Maybe you need someone to complement your perception: if you are sad you may need someone happy, if you are happy someone sad, to walk together safely.

The object can be experienced in 2 main ways, outside-in and inside-out. The outside-in aspects: the appearance of the hats indicates obviously what mood you are in. This experience critiques our excess of self-awareness in public, how much we care about how others are looking at us. The inside-out aspect provides a thrilling sensorial experience, something different and playful, we might not care how people will look at us, in our own visual and acoustic distorted world.

The “sad hat | happy hat” is a simple playful perception limb that directs and amplifies ones perception and mood, allowing to re-consider how one feels about the city while creating an extreme social relation between the mask user and the others, encouraging the necessary complementary pair relation

With Dot Nitipak Samsen. Voice Nasser moustakim.

http://www.dotmancando.net/projects/between/
http://cesarharada.com/2008/sad-hat_happy-hat/

OSC/ChucK soundtoy sketch from Chris Hand on Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/1445199

Turn up the volume, full-screen, comfy, ready for a basic synesthetic experience? I like so much!

In order to make obvious the connections between the station and human we need to link them physically,the one we are interested the most are the air, urine (piss) and feces (shit) managment. I made some researches and found some good existing products for breathing system:

Even a baby can tolerate such an “invasive” apparel, the people in the station could as well, but reduces the mobility. Now about Urine:

For the urine and feces I found this amazing ressource: Urine and Bowel Management for children with Spinal Cord Injury and Spina Bifida, Copyright © 1987 by David Werner for the Hesperian Foundation, “Disabled Village Children” project.

Also truck drivers have some sort of solution to that problem, in a truck driver style, hahaha!

We learn how to use a catheter or how to make one ourself the DIY way. The urinary is not that difficult, but the system for feces as it is semi-solid is more challenging…

I found this type of equipment searching for bowel managment. The process depends a lot on the quality of the human feces, according to the Bristol Chart below.

Woooo,,, this project, starts to scare me a little bit huhuhuhu!…… And how to find all this equipment in Madrid?..
And, don’t forget to drink a lot!

As far as I understood, we are not going to show the whole thing, but more a model of the system, just a model to explain the system. There will not be 2 structures, but one communicating with the outside; the air system of the pillows and the air system of the greenhouse rotation are distinct. So my task isn’t clearly defined : functional engineering or just prop’ / system explaination with nice graphics? Well, it is up to me, if I come up with a great system that is simple to implement, than we can do it, else, we’ll just carry on and try to build this as well as possible.

Ok, I need to make it simple, show the circuit that holds all the variables :

Ok, if this is to be re-used, I need to make it look good, and more clear:

Ok, great, now everything is as clear as a subway system map. We can sense and control each “line” running between the World - the Urban Space Station - Human, it quantity, quality, even nature, the following post will contain proposals of apparatus, BUT …

THE ARCHITECTURE IS JUST MAKING LIFE FUNCTION OBVIOUS (protecting, extending the human Body limits, embodying functions in technical objects, isolating and specialising objects)…
- HOW OBVIOUS DO WE WANT TO GET?
- HOW MUCH DO WE WANT TO MANIPULATE AND CONTROL (when change and difficulty is engine of progress and evolution, where is optimization? That’s an ethical and/or political statement, and as it it not my work, what should be my influence
- HOW FAR CAN BE THE ARCHITECTURE (in its obviousness) BE CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL PROJECT (optimized, functions made obvious) EXTENSION OF THE ARCHITECTURE DOMAIN? LET’S MAKE MORE THAN A GREEN HOUSE -> TOWARD MEDICAL AND AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY?.

We are eternally computing with the universe so … OK, let’s make a list of tecnical artefact proposals that could optimize the system functions, may it be ironical…

Thats’ a quick draft for Edward Murfitt (Royal College of Art, IDE) system trying to optimize simultaneously quality of life, energy consumption (qualitative approach of carbon offsetting), and economical benefit, all administrated on an open platform with a transparent accountancy. Go Neutral, out now!

I was simply doing my thing in the Design Interactions lab, when symbols came out of the stapling machine…

The stapling machine had a message to deliver to the world… I was in direct contact with extraterrestrial life, they were revealing me mysteries through the stapler, from outer space or maybe from a totally different space-time…???

But my classmate Dot (Nitipak Samsen), told me these letters existed on earth… WHAT?… Yes.

So they can be only one reason to this : extraterrestrial life comes from Thailand and speak Staples. That’s the only explanation I can think of.

So I kept on stapling for a while until the messages got too intense for my human understanding..
So to sum up, according to Richard Hawking, to survive civilisation self-destruction we can either escape to space and inhabit an other planet, or go to Thailand.

Graffiti rarely discuss the architectural surface they are standing on and are consequently and unfortunately considered parasites or aggressions. In the internet realm, it would be like if a comment wasn’t related to the article. I that sense most graffiti are irrelevant to their context. What a waste… in the internet realm, a comments proves interest and usually brings a serious constructive feedback to the article, visitors are coming and appreciate the openess, creating the buzz and advertising. Architecture should permit graffiti in that direction when the graffiti-comment is related to architecture, increasing each others’ relevancy… Maybe architecture is just a comment on the landscape? HAHAHAHA !!! Here’s a cool laser projector to comment buildings, waiting for the next generation building with spray cans and chalks provided (maybe simply attached to the walls with little ropes).

I have always been wondering how dealers of weapons of mass destruction could be living and working in my neighbourhood. We are being polite to each other, may take the same bus, queue in the same cultural venues, love the same music… but still, I can’t tolerate what they do. A London CAAT map on Platial.com has won a site award in the “Activism” category. The map, called London Arms Trade, shows the locations of the offices of weapons manufacturers and distributors in London. Contribute to peace, you can add placemarks on the map too. Through Wombles and CAATblog.

What can you do if your computer hypnotyses you so bad… ?