Projects — LING TAN

Low Carbon Banquet For A Hundred

Public banquet for 100 debating climate action in Hackney

Harvesting Climate Action

Multimedia installation examining food's carbon footprint

100 Climate Actions

Climate toolkit ranking 100 individual and collective actions

T(h)ree

Landscape intervention giving voice to a 200-year old tree

Playing Democracy 2.0

Multiplayer Pong game rewriting the rules of democracy

Leeds Low Carbon Supper Club

Communal low carbon feast re-assembled from Pop-Up

Leeds Low Carbon Pop-Up

Experimental food and data farm in historical market

Cloud Of Impossibility

Interactive tensegrity structure transforming a venue entrance

Strata

Interactive architectural interventions in Barking Power Station

Low Carbon Children’s Banquet

Annual low carbon banquet hosted for school children

More-than-Human Assembly

Interactive environment for cross-species deliberation

Wild Imaginarium

New interactive entrance for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Low Carbon Tastings x Science Gallery

Discussing climate change at Science Gallery

Low Carbon Chinatown x Ars Electronica

Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival

Low Carbon Leeds Residency

Food & climate residency at Compass Festival

Low Carbon Chinatown Supper Club x Manchester Museum

Public communal feast for 80 exploring climate change

State-less 無國界

Curation of multimedia exhibition at Two Temple Place

Low Carbon Chinatown Supper Club x Barking Riverside

Public communal feast for 60 exploring climate change

Low Carbon Chinatown

Multi-year initiative exploring climate action in food systems

Low Carbon Pop-Up Structure

Low carbon pavilion for London Design Festival

Low Carbon Digital Cookbook

Digital climate toolkit exploring the carbon footprint of recipes

Digital SUPERPOWER! Matsudo International Science Art Festival

Gesture sensing platform for mapping earthquake safety

Taking Root

Collaborative bamboo growing as carbon sink across UK

Digital SUPERPOWER! London x Johannesburg x Bulawayo

Safety sensing tech connecting young women across 3 cities

Growing Riversiders

100 families growing a large-scale living installation

Playing Democracy

Giant multiplayer Pong exploring democratic principles

Pollution Explorers Collective Action

Collective intelligence experiment on air quality action

SUPERMOMENTS

Wearable performance exploring agency in public space

Pollution Explorers

Wearable toolkit mapping subjective air quality perception

SUPERGESTURES

Wearable performance exploring smart city impact on youth

SUPERPOWER! Johannesburg

Gesture-sensing wearables mapping safety in Johannesburg

Digital SUPERPOWER! Romania

Digital toolkit exploring COVID safety with Romanian youth

Embodied Companionship

Reframing gesture recognition as human-machine dialogue

REBOOT R&D

Wearable design for an interactive AI theatre triptych

SUPERPOWER! Mombasa

Wearable toolkit mapping gender representation in Mombasa

Alive-like Stylefree Companions

A wearable companion that becomes more alive with wear

SUPERPOWER! Liverpool

Expressive gesture-sensing wearables for children

SUPERPOWER! Finsbury Park

Wearable toolkit exploring safety and diversity in Finsbury Park

WearAQ

Wearable toolkit mapping air quality with school children

WearON

Open source prototyping wearable platform

Fakugesi Social Wearables

Art & tech residency in Johannesburg

Transformer

Body-tracking game exploring proprioception & collaboration

Reality Mediators

Experiments exploring bearability of future wearables

SEED

Growing a speculative symbiotic prosthesis with its wearer

Reality Mediators II

AI prosthesis testing bearability and altered consciousness

The Norway Experiment

Performance film testing the body's limits in extreme cold

Movement Enhancing Prosthesis

Prosthesis exploring movement through material structure

Branding Research on Wearable Products

Branding critique of commercial wearable tech

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