[DPoN showing temperatures in the low-60’s, clear skies, and winds out of the south (indicated by the vertically-oriented yellow streak to the right)] Dynamic Performance of Nature: Augmenting Environmental Perception Through Social Media And Architectural Informatics by Brian W. Brush, Yong Ju Lee & Noa Younse:

Abstract: Architecture has always functioned as a mediating structure between humans and the environments in which they live; a static assemblage of semi-inert materials orchestrated, amongst other things, to temper environmental forces for human habitation. With advances in material and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. They are becoming supple matrices for inter-environmental information exchange and perception.

Dynamic Performance of Nature is our permanent architectural media installation in the Leonardo Museum located in Salt Lake City, Utah. DPoN intends to augment environmental perception in museum visitors by communicating global environmental information through a dynamic and interactive interface, facilitated by social media, and embedded in the material of a high-tech media wall. It’s conceived upon the notion that sustainability for the 21st century should be crafted to evolve beyond conventional application of green techniques and biomimetic pastiche into something alive and integrated with the environment.

Keywords: Architecture, social media, Twitter, sustainability, Processing, data visualization, interaction design, materiality, mapping, light, biomimicry, intelligent environments.