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The idea is to create interactive installation in public space with the most “Lo-Fi” way. The elements used would all be banal objects from stationary shop or typical hobby shop in Akihabara. With limited budget, we were interested to work with magnets because they can multiply small movements to larger effect with simple logic like “pendulum.” We “RENT” (only possible in Japan, I guess) 4,000 pieces of magnets and stick them onto the paper discs that hung by steel rails. The project is called Air Domino because as soon as one paper disc moves it creates ripple effect to those next to it without touching physically.

The only electical system we used in the Airdomino are the driving arms which are connected to the home made sensor system (as well bought from Akihabara.) There are total of 100 driving arms made of Tamiya gear boxes (used in toy car) in the whole installation. The optimal system are able to create the movement of those 2,000 paper discs coving 200 square meters. Whenever there is a movement underneath the sensor the Air Dominos activate. With minimum technology involved, we were able to create a socalled “interactive installation” in the Digital Art Festival!!!!

Tribute to our exhaustion: The brand new exhibition at TCDC, Quick bites; Design for better Eating opened yesterday (31st March 2009.) More about it coming up on this blog

We devide downtown area of Bangkok into 4 parts each of which is 1.5km.x1.5km. The different part of the map is given to different group of designer to be given their vision upon by making physical model on top of it. There is no other rules about the making of the model but time retriction that it will be Bangkok in the year 2082 to garantee that each group can express their future view of Bangkok freely. The 4 physical models are juxtaposingly connected in the exhibition to illustrate different scenarios of the futurist Bangkok. 

Within the modern movement of Bangkok as a city, visionary discussion over the future image of the city itself never exist.  With10 million inhabitants, Bangkok can be considered as a metropolis at least around the region, the Asian metropolis that has unique beauty, lives and problems of its own.

Reference image: image of future London by Grey’s cigarete company

We believe that the discussion over the future of our living environment should be in broad scale including many practises, writers, architects, movie makers, politicians, artists etc. That hase been what Bangkok is lacking.

In our version; in 2082 Bangkok will be a metropolis of 40 million population (4 times of what it is at the moment.) Fossil fuel has been vanished. All automotives are Hydrogen based so Bangkokian are using cars still. The 30th phase of express way is under construction (4th phase at the moment). It is 7 storey stacking on each other, the tallaest in the world. The governvent build social housing towers for the residents. They are 250 storey, 800 meters high. The tallest building in Bangkok is 1,500 meters high, the 3rd tallest in the world.

The entertainment business reaches its top level; the drive-in cineplex shows 50 movies in the same time stacking 200 meters from the ground. Casino and massage palours have been legalized. There are intertwined with the highway system. The city finally found the great idea, expanding the existing public park 20 times bigger than it is. No one can build on it. (The idea is taken from Central park in New York City) However, the luxury big and small projects are protuding, overhanging, overlapping with the city’s man made nature. 7-Eleven spread like virus over everything.

In 2082, Bangkok is still a city in super congestion condition. Bangkokian are still happy people like who they are.

Never miss the entertaining moments… We entertain our trainees with the endless table installation. It look just like what we expected.. some corners remind me of “TRANG’s cake” though.

Some rendering images from the development stage.