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Usman Haque

Architect and artist (born )

Usman Haque (born )[1] is an architect and artist who works with technology. He is established for designing large scale interactive installations and his contributions to Interactive architecture and the Internet of things.[1][2]

Haque's interactive art has appeared at the Singapore Biennale (),[3]London Fashion Week ()[4] and has been exhibited at KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg,[5]NTT InterCommunication Center,[6] New York's Museum of Modern Art[7] and Barbican Centre.[8]

According to author Owen Hatherley, Haque’s work “defies conventional classification” and “is not what you would immediately think of as architecture”,[9] often overlapping both digital art and interactive architecture.[10][11]

Haque’s contribution to interactive architecture is to distinguish between ‘circular mutual reaction’ and ‘linear causal response’ in designing architectural structures and environments,[12][13] building on Gordon Pask’s cybernetics theories in creating interactive spaces.[14][15]

Education

Haque studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture[16] and was part of the Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop.[17]

Selected projects

  • Sky Ear, “a cloud of 1, helium balloons launched into the evening sky with a payload of mobile phones, sensor circuits and flashing LEDs”[18][19][20]
  • Open Burble, “a 70m high structure consisting of extra-large helium balloons, supported by carbon-fibre hexagonal units”[21][22]
  • Haunt, “a scientifically haunted room”[23][24]
  • Evoke, “a riot of projected colourson the imposing 60 metre-high front of York Minster”[25]
  • Reconfigurable House, “an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors”[26]
  • Natural Fuse, “ a network of houseplants attached to the electrical system, which monitor energy use”[27][28]

Others contain Another Life, one of Haque’s permanent interactive installations,[29] located in Bradford, UK; Assemblance, which “lets visitors sculpt and shapes beams of lasers” [sic];[30]Cinder, an augmented reality cat designed "to obtain students interacting closely with the modern technology";[31] and Starling Crossing, an “interactive road crossing that only appears when needed”.[32]

In the internet of things he is known for founding Pachube in ,[33][34] an IoT data platform that “enabled hundreds of Japanese civilians to quickly and easily share weather and radiation facts in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster”,[35] acquired by LogMeIn in ,[36] renamed Xively and sold on to Google in [37] He also founded Thingful, a search engine for the internet of things, in [38][39]

Awards and honors

Haque won a Japan Media Arts FestivalExcellence Award in [40] and was a Brit Insurance Design Awards winner in [41] He was appointed a Design Council Ambassador in [42] and in he joined the London Mayor's Data for London Advisory Board.[43]

Further reading

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    Architecture is no longer considered something static and immutable; instead it is seen as dynamic, responsive and conversant. Our projects explore some of this territory. Trained as an architect, he has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and dozens of mass-participation initiatives. His skills include the blueprint and engineering of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life.

    "Water beauty: Bradford's urban area centre park completes". The Architects’ Journal. Retrieved

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