The UVA Smart Environments project challenges the social equity and urban spatial implications of data informatics. Funded by the Humanities Informatics Lab, researchers and designers contribute architectural, ecological, and urban policy perspectives to an expanding dialogue within information and data science. Co-directors Mona El Khafif and Jeana Ripple and faculty researchers and collaborators, Andrea Hansen Phillips and Andrew Mondschein will present two recent projects that facilitate civic engagement, data collection, and visualization through technology. This presentation and discussion is moderated by Ila Berman, Dean of the UVA School of Architecture.
Ostenda illuminata, a prototype (and fabricated installation) is a data-responsive urban architecture that functions as a tool of communicative action, increasing urban imageability and socio-political responses to urban environmental challenges. Ostenda is a public space installation equipped with sensors that help communities to understand environmental conditions that we can’t see or sense with our own five senses. Ostenda collects these data and reveals them locally and on a live webmap, where it is produced in real-time. The first prototype of Ostenda will be installed in September 2020, allowing presenters to share a virtual exhibit/tour of the project with session attendees. The team is currently engaging with community members from Belmont to prepare a first outdoor application under a new research project entitled Networked Public Space.
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