Nitipak Samsen

0:23Hello okay hi I'm I'm that like a dot well yes I'm well first off thank you very much for having me today I'm honored to be here and today I'm going to talk about this quite whole project it's about eight years ago I'm pretty excited to talk about it I'm a partner and designer I'm beryllium and I am brilliant we believe that we were either does community as a citizen so we can achieve greater things if we collaborate Oh dissipated each other hmm so we're trying to create a tool for the audience or the users or who need to achieve that.

1:12And I will project the range of the project has a wide scale so you just what you just saw was natural few such like a domestic product and this project from last year at the barbican digital revolution is like a gr gallery piece for 20 people at a time and a little bit bigger it's a kind of big little skill people came together to design and assemble and fly this gigantic structure or even web platform for like a few thousand people to give us at the same time.

1:47This is a our broad project called thing for which a search engine for Internet of Things mm-hmm so eight years ago.

1:55I was obsessed with the carbon footprint it was quite fascinating like everything we do as human has a consequence in carbon dioxide it. And this bad boy so bad I don't know and and it's so so difficult to visualize is invisible and intangible so I was thinking like how do we kind of materialize it a bit and of course we know that tree growing it kind of absorbed carbon dioxide and turn that into the mass of the tree so this picture that's my hand and it's actually one day of my breathing I accept the amount of my cup of carbon dioxide ice incinerated in a day it takes a tree to generate to grow that much of biomass to absorb my breathing in a day but I can't help I can't stop breathing can I so let's move on mmm I was particularly interested in electricity and minor bad lighting there.

3:04So basically in that in that box the pile of dry leaves is if you want to power a 50 watt light bulb for one hour the creek the tree has to grow that much to absorb the carbon dioxide that was generated from producing the energy so that is yeah that's quite fascinating so there we go what about we have a plant pot that has a power socket in it.

3:32So the capacity of the plant that growing and absorbing carbon dioxide is the limitation of the energy that can be given to the appliance that plugged into it.

3:43So there we go this is a kind of natural field in a nutshell mmm but how much can be gift to the appliance this is just a way to calculate how much carbon is in the the tree or the plant basically you have to microwave lots of plants and trees so to get rid of the water and that's a calculation from yeah.

4:07So basically you can calculate the carbon dioxide thought in the dry mass from that.

4:13But it turns out that. So if I have this big water plant I can't even power one small idea lamp I need about five of them how do we do that then so coincidentally at that time we were working on an art project called patch Bay it is a kind of web service for things to share data to talk to each other in one of it was one of the first platform for you kind of things.

4:45So there we go why don't we just connect them all together.

4:50So if you don't use your appliance your unit can be a common thing for other people in the system so it's kind of like representation of this carbon footprint ecology but in a very small scale because there are only 20 people in the system so and kind of like other smart products this destro feels doing it can take care of your plants by watering it and also you can pick three of the appliance that converted unit can pick a radio lamp and a fan they are bad qualities and on the unit no not that one yeah that's a dire on the unit instead of on and off you can if you want to be off. Basically you just like be a carbon sink for the community you can choose to be selfless and you just use energy as much as the system can provide you your lamp might be blinking all the time.

5:58But that what it is is that what the system can provide you or you can choose to be selfish you will just use whatever energy that you want you might break a system yeah.

6:07So the definition of feels a sacrificial device to provide overcurrent protection stress on sacrificial someone has to die something has to die right.

6:20So you're probably wondering what happened if someone break a system each unit has three lives and when someone break a system it one random unit lost one life if it lost all three life it will be injected with the vinegar that's the vinegar bottle atom in the front it is very efficient to to plant so I think it's important to stress that the fact that it is random because in this system is not about individual is about collective you did something bad to the community is not that you will be suffering someone else would be suffered maybe it's your kick I'm talking about carbon footprint in general and yeah we set up shop at the few many cities around the world in New York in Spain Australia in Korea and at the shop the audience can come at the user can come and adopt the unit. And so it has been quite successful I say but like I said it was eight years ago I don't remember much and and if there were a few schools that adopted the unit and yeah it's been great as an educational tool as well so fast forward eight years on we have so many smart product now we have a smart thermostat we have that was that smart light bulb smart fridge and even smart bed they are connected to internet somehow talking to something else and I think in in general this smart product or even smart city it solely focused on efficient making everything more efficient but I don't think that make us a nice matter it just I don't know 2000s and it's just vegas dow and at Imbrium we don't agree with that at all we think that smart assistant is actually the way to go we want to create a platform that not necessary efficient but somehow it's just for false messages and it makes people collaborate participate with each other to achieve greater thing and yeah that's what we do at Imbrium we are we have an upcoming project in the in the north of England I can't I can't really say much about it right now.

9:16But it's a communication tool in in a towel it's not efficient way of communicating at all.

9:24But the way we do it we make people talk to each other because we heard that they don't talk to each other in this town so it's not about efficiency at all it's about I don't know something else its force mass citizen yeah thank you very much you