Slovenia, Ljubljana
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2016-07-22 by Edgar Valdes
Street on Ljubljana In this picture we see elements that have functionality for living, transport, waste disposal. In the firs category a common relation with livable spaces -houses- each of which has a parking space in front of them. As for transport, we can identify a main road for cars mobility and a bike lane; hidden on the photo you can expect a walking pass. Waste disposal is available with trash containers that have a underground storage available. A interaction frame can be defined as a living space, transport, disposal scheme. Curious is that wasting site is located not in front of the livable spaces but in between the bike an car transport lanes. Invisible information comes from the relation of housing and waste; and from the relation of transport and waste. A recollection schema can be programmed by the use of this information On the first relation, information on the trash containers usage can be canalized to determine the average wasting per street block. Useful for the last end is that waste is also classified; given then, an additional characteristic which could give us information of type of waste per street block. This same arrangement can be applied to multiple zones; giving us a grand total of waste per type in a city and a temperature graph rating the most common waste material per zones in the city. An enhancement approach can be toke if we use a little bit more of hidden information. This amounts to reveal a second kind of invisible information that relate transport and waste. From the configuration of the ground trash container, a simple weight sensor can be use to indicate full containers; this in turn can be used to give warning on not to use the container in order to prevent waste to be on the outside -as seen for the black bag on the photo-. Moreover, an alert can be triggered for waste distribution by the use of special transport that use the bike lane. A service of distribution can be created with the special porpoise to recollect this waste and redistribute to the closest not fill trash container. The information made visible from this process comes after a data gathering created by the people in charge of the service. This data could help to look for preventive waste recollection in certain zones. In this photo example we use the actual infraestructura relations present on waste disposal on a Ljubljana street. By using this infraestructura we reveal invisible information that can be gathered and create a schema for a more efficient waste recollection.