Yiru Lu – Winter Show 2020

Enrique García Alcalá, Yiru Lu

https://vimeo.com/488357609

Description

Secret Forest brings the participants to a virtual instrument which merges electronic with nature sounds, allowing to play in collaboration with someone else around the world in a common virtual space.
Secret Forest is conceived as a way for exploring the web browser as a musical instrument, integrating different technologies, it allows real time connection for video which is analyzed with a pose detection machine learning model translating body position to sound.

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IMALR-GT.201 , IMALR-GT.201

Connections Lab, Connections Lab

Sound,Machine Learning

Mobile botanic park, a new way for inspiring Urban-symbiosis

, , Yiru Lu

A rich variety of plants are planted in the bus for visitors to get more information of local ecosystem species.

A mobile botanical garden, pop up in the downtown commercial square , inviting pedestrian to visit.

Mobile botanic park pop-up in the city center for passengers to visit.

Different category of functional balcony for urban symbiosis

Free growing plants' packages, including compost, seed, instruction.

https://vimeo.com/488430116

Description

In a hundred years, 70 percent of Shanghai's native plants have been classified as rare or seriously rare. Urban species unity(lacking diversity) is increasing at an invisible rate. In order to satisfy urban life and human needs, we use herbicides against unwanted species, blaming the invasive species therefore covering up the vulnerability of habitats created by urban civilization.

This project will attempt to intervene in the ecology of public space by introducing species and nature topics from local ecology into urban public life through mobile buses.

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IMALR-GT.202, IMALR-GT.202

Critical Experiences, Critical Experiences

Social Good/Activism,Sustainability