Hot on the heels of HAQUE TAN's Wild Imaginarium, the new entrance for Great Ormond Street Hospital, we're super excited to be working on a new project for Clarence Gardens, in Regent’s Park Estate, London.

The site is home to many trees, including a London Plane tree that is over 200 years old. HAQUE TAN's project will explore possible conversational relationships between humans and non-humans (including both trees and other organisms) using an AI language model. Our aim is to encourage deeper relationships between urban humans and non-humans and show how our interconnectedness and mutual dependency is essential for the future of city living.

With the support of Old Diorama, we'll be working together with local residents, designing and developing a permanent space where people can have long lasting discussions and deliberations – involving not just other people but non-humans as well. Watch this space!

Did you miss the launch of Wild Imaginarium? We recently announced the new entrance HAQUE TAN designed for Great Ormond Street Hospital, one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, a groundbreaking artistic and architectural intervention that combines human creativity in the built environment with artificial intelligence. 📍If you’re in London, find it on Guildford Street! Check Wild Imaginarium on our website!

Wild Imaginarium featured in Architects' Journal

Ling and Usman recently wrote about Wild Imaginarium for Architects' Journal, discussing the impact of AI on architecture, why it's useful to think of AI as a cultural infrastructure as much as technological, and how we used AI for co-creation with children from the hospital. Check it out here: Reimagining Great Ormond Street Hospital entrance with AI (tip: if you have trouble loading the page, try loading in an incognito window).

Playing Democracy 2.0 opens at STRP Festival

Ling is an ACT Award Winner 2024 for her project Playing Democracy 2.0, a giant multiplayer game of Pong, exploring the principles of democracy. Each time a team scores a point, they can choose to change one of six game rules designed around principles of democracy.

With sound design by Usman (as composer uah), the game enables people to question the balance between individual and collective experience, and how democracy can persist when we hold different values. If you're in Eindhoven, catch it at STRP Festival while you can – it closes in a couple days!

Coming Soon

+ Natural Fuse, one of our old projects consisting of a network of connected plant pots that form a collective carbon sink, features in 'Transform! Designing the Future of Energy', a new exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum showcasing energy propositions of the future.

+ Ling and Usman will be part of an Architects' Journal Technology in Practice webinar with a focus on AI on April 30th – the AJ website will have more info on how to join.

+ We'll also be at Festival of Place in London in early July – if you're there as well, do come say hello!

What we're reading

• Just finished Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World, by Georgina Voss – highly recommended!
• ​Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems is a fascinating look at cognition, which is core to our current investigations into more-than-human intelligence.
• ​Recent research shows that introducing a new fourth traffic signal – for autonomous vehicle traffic – could improve travel time for both pedestrians and vehicles.

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