The Open Archive is a collection of video documentation of existing projects related to the themes of the exhibition. The Archive is designed to grow over the course of the exhibition based on suggestions and contributions received through an open submission process. The following projects comprise the initial selections for the Archive:
 Biomapping - Christian Nold, 2004- |
Biomapping is a community mapping project by Christian Nold that visualizes the emotional topography of cities. |
 Blinkenlights - Chaos Computer Club, 2001- |
Blinkenlights is a building facade by the Chaos Computer Club that people interact with using their mobile phones to create animations or play the video game “pong.” |
 The Catalogue - Chris Oakley, 2004 |
The Catalogue by Chris Oakley explores the codification of humanity on behalf of corporate entities in this video simulation presenting a near-future shopping mall where item-level RFID tagging is a pervasive practice. |
 Citizen Science - Eric Paulos et al, 2007- |
Citizen Science: Mobile Sensing for Community Action is a research project developing environmental sensing platforms to support grassroots community action for improving air quality, water conservation, and human health and well-being, by Eric Paulos, Paul M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, Alan Mainwaring, Chris Myers, Sushmita Subramanian, Allison Woodruff, Sunyoung Kim, and Stacey Kuznetsov. |
 Constraint City - Gordan Savicic, 2007 |
Constraint City is a project by Gordan Savicic that maps the electromagnetic waves of urban environments to the tightness of wearable chest straps embedded within an ordinary jacket. |
 Life: A User |
Life: a user’s manual is a series of public performances and online mappings by Michelle Teran that examine the hidden stories captured by private wireless CCTV streams and how they intersect with the visible world around us. |
 Open Columns - Omar Khan, 2007- |
Open Columns is a project by Omar Khan that investigates the use of responsive elastomer constructions for patterning spatial inhabitation. |
 ORAMBRA - Tristan d |
The Office for Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau for Responsive Architecture (ORAMBRA) is a design technology consultancy directed by Tristan d’Estrée Sterk |
 Peformative Ecologies - Ruairi Glynn, 2007- |
Performative Ecologies by Ruairi Glynn is a kinetic ‘conversational’ environment that investigates gestural forms of dialogue between inhabitants and an evolving environment. |
 Vendmaster 3000 - Orkan Telhan, 2006 |
Vendmaster 3000 by Orkan Telhan is a candy dispenser that operates with speech recognition, offering three egzotic flavors from India, Germany and South Korea for users who are capable of pronouncing the name of the brand with the local accent. |