Yellow Dust. Much more than measuring air
17/10/2017.
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017 [Seoul] South Korea
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Yellow Dust is an installation for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism that builds a yellow cloud of water vapor, an infrastructure that measures airborne particles in the area in which it is located, making them visible and partially reducing them.
Yellow Dust by C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust by C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust by C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust by C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust by C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Detail. Yellow Dust by C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Girls running under Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Jumping towards Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Playing towards Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust por C+arquitectos / In The Air. Photograph © Daniel Ruiz
Yellow Dust was designed by C+arquitectos / In The Air (Nerea Calvillo, Raul Nieves, Pep Tornabell, Yee Thong Chai, Marina Fernandez, Emma Garnett), a way to monitor the air that surrounds us in a different way than how the scientists and technicians of the administrations. Instead of staying hidden, having just the objective of taking accurate data, Yellow Dust opens the monitoring process in several ways showing the particulate measuring devices, while allowing you to feel the quality of the air through the contact of the cloud with the body.
Description of project by C+ arquitectos, NEREA CALVILLO
A three-dimensional water vapor canopy; Yellow Dust is a sensing and sensuous infrastructure that monitors, makes visible and partially remediates particulate matter in the air through variable clouds of yellow mist.
Composed by Do It Yourself sensors and using off-the shelf construction systems, it aims to contribute to collective forms of making air pollution visible.
In contrast to scientific and policy making versions of air monitoring, where the devices remain invisible and sensing only about the data, Yellow Dust engages with the toxicity of the city by opening up the monitoring process in various ways: revealing the monitoring technology and its measurements, communicating the quality of air pollution not through screens or numbers, but through a sensuous experience with the data, and conditioning the environment by humidifying and cooling. It also provides the information to replicate the project in other contexts, as an open source urban infrastructure.
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Design and Production
Yellow Dust para la Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 by C+arquitectos/In The Air (Nerea Calvillo, Raúl Nieves, Pep Tornabell, Yee Thong Chai, Marina Fernandez, Emma Garnett).
Acknowledgments
With the help of Acción Cultural Española and an ESRC ESA scholarship from the University of Warwick and the Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom).
C+ arquitectos NEREA CALVILLO
Nerea Calvillo founded C+arquitectos in 2004, after working in several internationally acclaimed architectural firms such as NO.MAD, Madrid, and F.O.A., London.
Specialised in new technologies as design tools, C+ has designed architecture projects, contemporary art exhibitions at Laboral (Gijon, Spain), Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile, (Santiago de Chile, Chile), Sala de Tabacalera del Ministerio de Cultura (Madrid, Spain) or the Cervantes Institute (Spain, Serbia, etc). EUROPAN and other social housing competitions have been awarded, and the office was selected for FreshMadrid, a selection of emergent practices in 2007.
C+ research projects oriented towards data visualization and cartographies have been developed in workshops at international universities and medialabs, which include Invisible Cartographies in PEI, Bogotá (Colombia), and In The Air, in Medialab-Prado, (Spain), Kitchen Budapest (Hungary) and Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Chile (Chile) and exhibited at international venues, such as the Canadian Centre of Architecture (Canada).
Another area of production are curatorial projects related to media facades or collaborative research. Nerea curated the seminar Digital Screens and Public Space in Medialab-Prado in Madrid, the Media Facades Festival 2010 in Madrid. Since 2010 is part of the working group of El Ranchito at Matadero-Madrid .
Nerea Calvillo received the MS in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University in 2001 as a Fulbright Fellow, working at the moment on her PhD. Since 2006 holds an assistant professorship at the Universidad Europea in Madrid and since 2010 at the Universidad de Alicante and is currently a Poiesis Fellow at the New York University (New York).
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