GEO-LLUM Blog

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Reimagine public lighting in green urban areas

... About the language of chaos

July 20, 2022

Chaos according to the definition of Wikipedia is a word that comes from Greek, and which means unpredictable. We define something as chaotic when we do not manage to see a logical relationship of cause between events. Chaos is most of the time related to something negative. Not being able to fores...

... Chickens and rabbits

July 19, 2022

source: Pinterest - @love_exposure7 Friedensreich Hundertwasser in 1958 wrote an Arquitectural Manifesto against rationalism in architecture. He was seriously critic with the way of building the city. He said: "Functional architecture has proved to be the wrong road to take, similar to painting wi...

... About Digital Urban Systems

July 19, 2022

We are lately seeing how informatics systems and digital services are enhanced and begin to integrate into the city. You just need to think about the concept of Smartcity to understand how the vision of our city is changing. All that raises a series of questions, how this relationship has to be? T...

Low tech building approach

July 06, 2022

Technology has become the idol of our society, but technological progress is, more often than not, aimed at solving problems caused by earlier technical inventions. There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society. I...

Actilum and Geo-Llum light tecnology

June 29, 2022

The first time I got in touch with Actilum was during my first public project presentation in Akasha. I met Catalina, she was enthusiast about the idea of collaborating with her company in to the light technology of Geo-Llum. We were sharing the same vision about this new venture together. Usually t...

Akasha Hub

June 27, 2022

I want to introduce Akasha Hub, the community of which I make part and the one in which I have my artistic residence to develop the Geo-Llum project. Akasha is a decentralized community. It is made up of people who share the same vision of the future of the society. A future of communion, collabora...

CCCB Interview

June 23, 2022

Watch the complete video interview ! ➡️

Geo-Llum Isea 2022

June 13, 2022

ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, is one of the most important annual events worldwide dedicated to the crossroads where art, design, science, technology and society meet. With it comes an enthusiastic international and local community, ready to work together to develop this interdisc...

Structure 3D Modelling

June 06, 2022

Geo-Llum has been conceived as an organic being, with interconnected organs that cooperate for its right functioning. We are approaching this creation process merging the concept of growing and the concept of assembling. There is an upper part with fennel shape, already present in nature design and...

Wetlab: project incubator

June 06, 2022

We have built an incubation space so that during the development of the project we can use at the same time, organic materials, water and technology. Lorenzo Patuzzo has conceived the design of the LAB and has been built with the collaboration of Guilhem Senges, a multidisciplinary artist and artis...

We starting! Take sample of Hort del Clot soil

May 22, 2022

On March 22, we proceeded to take a sample of soil present in the place where the Geo-Llum pilot project is planned to be installed in Hort del Clot. This day accompanied by Kait Hutchison from Green City Lab and Claudia Santibañez from CCCB and in collaboration with Barcelona Council that provided...

Kick-off meeting with Bioe

May 22, 2022

➡️ https://bioelectrogenesis.es Our main collaborator is a bacteria named Geobacter. "Geobacter species are anaerobic respiration bacterial species which have capabilities that make them useful in bioremediation. Geobacter was found to be the first organism with the ability to oxidize organic comp...

Geo-Llum video presentation by Samira Benini

April 20, 2022

We get the video presentation in Akasha hub! Watch HERE!

Introducing Geo-Llum Project

April 08, 2022

The project aims to reimagine the role of lighting in public urban spaces with a symbiotic relationship between the artificial and the natural world, focusing on a deeper understanding of the fundamental importance of nature as collaborator in the city. The artwork consist in a light sculpture tha...

Geo-Llum Presentation on @AkashaHub

March 31, 2022

The event will be held on March 31 at 6:30 p.m. at the headquarters of our collaborators: Akasha Hub Barcelona address: carrer de la Verneda 13- 19, local 1 Barcelona. Please confirm your assistance here: https://bit.ly/GEOLLUM https://bit.ly/GEOLLUM_Meetup UPDATE! Watch the video presentation ...

Hello World!

March 31, 2022

Welcome to geo_llum_project, this blog will follow the creation process of GEO-LLUM, a multidisciplinary urban art + science project that involves bacterias, soil, electricity, plants, bio-materials and last but not least, humans. The aim of the artwork is to reimagine the role of lighting in publi...