2015 Metropolitan Proto-garden (ecoLogicStudio June 2009)

[2015_MpG] Milan 2015: Metropolitan protoGARDEN – June 10, 2009 Milan 2015: Metropolitan protoGARDEN is a visionary project, its the projection of a dream for a new kind of cybernetic urban ecology; however, rather than with fictional scenarios, the dream is constructed through the systematic and rational deployment of techniques and technologies that have already entered our daily life: google MAPs and Earth, panoramio, flickr, facebook on one side, iPHONEs, computational tools, interactive and robotic devices on the other. In 2015_MpG this instruments are deployed to read, understand and eventually control and manipulate real material processes unfolding in Milan: the intensification of public urban life, the citys global awareness, the concentration of air pollution, the collection of rain water, the accessibility to public transportation, the growth of algae colonies, etc. The 2015_MpG interface extends the reach of such technologies to become instruments of communication and eventually conversation with the city as a large living system. This video can be read as a prototype, proof of concept of a new kind of urban and architectural interface/infrastructure; this form of machinic architecture is a synthetic hybrid embedded with biological life [physical proto-gardens], remote sensing and actuating capabilities [control and interaction systems embedded in the proto-gardens], performance [Urban Oxygenation, Algae Farming, Microclimatic regulation], computational power …