Ideal Concept

Living Cities is an alternative system of public illumination which obtains the necessary energy for its operation, from the photosynthetic processes of the trees. The lights that form the system, apart from illuminating the urban spaces, have the capacity to register the CO2 levels in the atmosphere. On the basis of such data, they react in an interactive way modifying their luminance behavior, indicating on the basis of three colors if a zone represents a low, average or high level of contamination.

The participation of the community is key in the conception of Living Cities. To generate this participation, LCD screens in the more popular and busy areas of the cities are installed which summarize general conditions of the city, exhibiting the environmental quality of the different sectors of the city. Possible corrective activities will be suggested in the screen with the idea that each citizen designs his own strategy helping to diminish his negative environmental impact in the process. The main goal of this stage of the project is to generate and expand the development of a social intelligence.