The Switch! Project

Switch! examines the presence and use of energy on a neighborhood, community, and citywide basis. Thus, it shifts away from the design of product interfaces and interactions in the home to forms that have a wider presence in the local and public space.

We continue to explore how design might enable people to relate more deeply and in an ongoing manner to energy use, but at an expanded scale- considering household-household, building-building, neighborhood-neighborhood interactions. To approach this, design must be extended beyond discrete people-product interactions to make visible and tangible the connection to wider-scale and longer-term interactions making up a locality, community, and society.

For further background: www.tii.se/switch, www.tii.se/static, www.tii.se/aware

Objectives

▪ promote the rational uses of energy;
▪ promote renewable energy;
▪ provide and disseminate energy information;
▪ protect the environment;
▪ reduce waste of energy in all sectors of society;

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Collaborative Enery Generation

Collaborative Energy Generation is a concept we are proposing to generate energy for the community benefit.

An example of this is the "Sustainable dance floor" concept. the idea behind this concept is to use the generate power by capturing the energy left behind when people walk or dance in a pub. This has been implemented at off_corso Rotterdam, Netherlands.


watch the videos to get a picture of how it works.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClIBN92wRF4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uju0oomz5So


if you have any idea's about how you can use similar or new technology to increase energy usage or generation in your neighborhood, community or in your city do comment about it.


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