COASTAL NOURISHMENT Interactive Organic Nourishment for coastal monitoring, management, education and pleasure of coastline environments. Completed case study 2016: Wadden Sea, Denmark UNESCO World Heritage site 24th November 2016
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES To create a space for both people and nature To create a system that prevents coastal erosion To create a public interface of monitoring To enhance enjoyment for people in nature
CONTENTS 1. Design 2. Construction education throughout the process 3. Public Interaction Behaviour change and further outcomes
Wadden Tide site Blåvandshuk, adjacent to Wadden Sea and North Sea
1. Design 2. Construction Education throughout the process 3. Public Interaction Behaviour change and further outcomes
Artist impression of design interacting with sea
Design developed in symbiosis with coastal forces and dynamic climate conditions
Factors for procurement: Social & Economic Policy Environment Interactive Organic Nourishment: sustainable management + growth
1. Design 2. Construction Education throughout the process 3. Public Interaction Behaviour change and further outcomes
Installation with local people and schools from the area
Marram grass planted to protect the sand dunes and encourage local biodiversity
Drone photos and workin-progress photos during the installation phase
Installation open to the public, wind forces begin to interact, growing sand dunes
Project opened by local politicians, welcome speech by Princess Marie of Denmark
Project completion time: 2 weeks to build Completion date: 1 September 2016
1. Design 2. Construction Education throughout the process 3. Public Interaction Behaviour change and further outcomes
Public interaction interface + Interactive app allows visitors to answer questions and support live monitoring of coastal change QR code triggers microblog app PicTag microblog app offers questions & comments line
Heatmap of emotional response to installation: The Heatmap presents the number of microblog posts at each location (with a QR code). The example shown presents the 1 st week of microblogs larger circles indicating more posts. This visualisation could also be further developed to show (for example): 1) Longer periods, 2) emotions per location and 3) changes over time in video form. Dunes Intensity of app posts Sea Beach
Comments each day: 660 microblog were posted using our PicTag mobile app over the course of a 6 week period (primarily during the 1 month of the festival). Interestingly, 75% of the posts were made with a comment, the remainder likely only viewing the content. This visualisation given a temporal perspective of microblog numbers. Data of this kind provides opportunities to further investigate reasons for variation (e.g. weather, specific events etc.).
Comments by location: The use of QR codes at different points on the beach enables a simple location visualisation. This is further developed later with a HeatMap. Unsurprisingly, location 0 (with its main exhibit board) has more posts. #0 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 Map of installation on coastline
0 1 Primary emotion per location The visualisations adjacent give an indication of how the above data can be used in a more visual, informative form. Two demonstrations are included: 1) A video of primary emotion per location and 2) a HeatMap showing number of microblogs per location. Initially, four primary emotions were uncovered and a representative emoticon created. The speed at which the emoticons emerge from the video represents the number of times that specific primary emotion was identified at the location in question. Location PicTag Question Primary Emotion Number Detected 0 How does it feel outside? Joy 50 1 Where is your gaze? Anticipation 4 2 What is the weather like? Surprise 5 3 How do you feel in the space? Trust 6 4 Are you reminded of anything? Joy 6 5 What memories are evoked? Joy 8 6 What are you feeling? Joy 6 7 What are you thinking? Joy 8 8 If younger how would you feel? Joy 12 9 How are people making you feel? Joy 25 10 What can you hear, smell, touch? Joy 25 The table presents a primary emotion detected at each location. At each location the user is able to scan a QR code (fabricated in Wood). This automatically starts the PicTag app that comprises: 1) A representative picture (e.g. Plant, Bird), 2) a sound clip (e.g. Seals), 3) a question for the visitor, 4) a microblog (text) area to respond and 5) links to social media.
Emotional Content of Microblogs Indicative emotion can be measured using sentiment analysis techniques (also called opinion mining). The approach makes use of an emotion vocabulary when analysing the content of each microblog (textual opinion). Follow on work is being carried out at Brunel University London where we plan to explore emotion measures (within the built environment) in both textual responses and facial video analysis. Emotional comments at location 1 The algorithm we use uncovers 7 emotions alongside a more general positive and negative sentiment. The chart below shows the variation in emotion at each location.
Analysis of multiple locations within the coastline: #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9
Video based visualisation of data: A video of emoticons emerging from a photograph can be viewed from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0b_uxvvwsxl5rcjhbwwfy RVZDaDg/view?usp=sharing
PROJECT OVERVIEW: WHAT PROBLEMS DOES THE INSTALLATION MITIGATE AND HOW? Interactive Organic Nourishment creates a solution to coastal erosion. It helps create awareness by involving a shared interaction of monitoring and education of coastal environments.
FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES The Wadden Sea installation took two weeks to build and install. It is scalable for larger projects, land area s and coastlines.
FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES Astudio s contemporary INTERACTIVE ORGANIC NOURISHMENT crosses the boundaries between installation and interaction, building and education. The development stages of the piece can be separated in design, construction and public interaction: The design is being developed in collaboration with a wide range of project partners, responds to site-specific conditions (these can be natural, rural or urban) and encourages the visitor to get involved. The assembly stage fosters the participation of local people, students and pupils helping with the construction work, learning about the environment and meeting new people. The public interaction process promotes visitor involvement through reading, responding to questions, taking photos, tweeting and sharing, and experiencing the work developing and changing over time. All project stages explore and investigate the processes of development and building, communication and collaboration, and the individual and collective reactions and responses to the experience of fragile and ever-changing environments. Throughout the project, different communication processes are established and scrutinized, within groups of people and between people and their surroundings during design and project development collaboration, construction management / work, public enjoyment, pleasure and interaction. The site-specific concept of the most recent installation, LIVING COASTLINE, for the international Wadden Tide exhibition of contemporary art installations at the Danish Blåvand coast was created collaboratively by Astudio, Computer Sciences at Brunel University, Aarhus School of Architecture and Therapy in Nature. The exhibition was running between 1 September and 2 October. An extensive programme of cultural events in nature, urban space and historical buildings along the coast accompanied the exhibition from 1 to 4 September. INTERACTIVE ORGANIC NOURISHMENT and the lastest coastal case study LIVING COASTLINE have been developed by Astudio s Research and Development team which is on this project led by artist / architect Christian Kerrigan. He is one of 12 international artists from countries with tidal coastal areas who have been invited to explore and react to this unique natural and cultural heritage in the language of visual arts and land art, film, literature, music, dance and the performing arts during the last year. Their artworks are situated within the natural setting of the tidal Danish Wadden Sea coast..
FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES Astudio s interactive case study LIVING COASTLINE frames coastal monitoring and management, education and pleasure in the natural environment of the UNESCO World Heritage site Wadden Sea. The forces of the tidal rise and fall of the sea levels and the wind work together to modify the space over time. Within a reinforced grid of 1,000 wooden poles, multiple spiral dunes created from sand and planted grasses capture the rising tide. The installation provides space for local ecology and fauna, and for public interaction to experience tidal change and the continuous movement of the coastline (sand, birds, erosion and the sea forces) through viewing from a high level or walking through the art work. At low tide, visitors are invited into the installation to shelter from the wind and to explore the precarious, delicate, constantly developing sea and plant life within the space. Computer scientists at Brunel University have developed an app triggered by a series of QR codes located at several points within the art work to invite visitors to react immediately to their surroundings by documenting, tweeting or uploading pictures -- and by answering specific questions, developed by Beth Collier of Therapy in Nature. These responses feed into a behaviour study which will over time build a picture of the effects on the natural environment, through creating a public interface of monitoring and, subsequently, a system that prevents coastal erosion. Through the learning process of dealing instantly with natural forces LIVING COASTLINE also generates shelter and an educational space to enhance the joy for people in nature and to explore the future design potential for interpretation spaces in coastal locations. The initial project concept INTERACTIVE ORGANIC NOURISHMENT can respond to unusual, challenging briefs and requirements and be tailored and fine-tuned to a wide range of complex natural, cultural and urban environments.
Contact details: Christian Kerrigan, Architect Christian.Kerrigan@astudio.co.uk Phone UK: +44 (0) 20 7401 4100 www.astudio.co.uk