“the air We make“
Konstantin Kim, Leonard Kern , Julian Heinen
We are located at the threshold of a new reality, an era of clear hyper interdependence and planetary scale computational capabilities mixed together with uncertainties of anthropocene and approaching scarcity of resources. Can technical ingenuities evoke in us a new understanding of the milieu and playfully help us overcome the growing sense of futility?
CO2 in a scale of a single room is measured by sensors, data is then sent to the machine, which represents it in a Cartesian coordinate system with planting seeds into hydroponic system and ensuring their growth, keeping water levels intact with a reacting watering apparatus.
Temporary adjusted for measuring interior spaces, each time a level of CO2 is crossing 600 ppm (complaints of stiffness and odours), the machine plants a batch of seeds within a stripe. Each stripe of hydroculture is a day’s worth data and each water basin contains two weeks of CO2 measurements.
Over time the planted bar grows, representing its CO2 content. Day by day, a grown CO2 graph is created visualising the measure air quality.