Yellow Dust

Actar, Energy and sustainability, Essay, Imminent Urban Commons, Nerea Calvillo, No Density, Senseable Technologies, Urban Paradigms

Air, Air quality, Architecture&climate, Architecture&environment, Climate, Climate control, Contamination, Data, Design-based research, Ecological agencies, Ecological researches, Essay, Exhibition, Future Commoning Cities, Imminent Commons, Micro-environment, Physiological atmospheres, Pollution, Prototype solutions, Public conditions, Public Space, Research, Responsive Environment, Responsive technologies, Sensing, Seoul, Seoul Biennale 2017, South Korea, Urban Paradigms, Urban research, Water

Yellow Dust is a three-dimensional water vapour canopy that provides information about air pollution and, more specifically, about particulate matter (PM 2.5). Drawing on architectural references like Diller and Scofidio’s Blur Building (2002), it is made of fog and is reactive to meteorological changes. It is also an inhabitable and media infrastructure, with a fundamental difference from the Blur Building: the media is not meant to be a display of art or information, but to reveal its own constitution and experience data. In this sense it relates to Philippe Rahm Architecte’s Jade Eco Park in Taiwan (2005- ) in its intention to condition the public space, as well as to Living Light, The Living’s pavilion in Seoul (2009), relying not only on vision, but also exploring less representational and more experiential modes of dealing with knowledge and information.