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In this study project, we will design and build an interactive, collaborative system for planning of wind farms based on toy bricks (e.g. Lego) and CityScope (https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/cityscope/overview/).
The project covers works around the adaptation of the CityScope system for the use case of local/regional wind farm planning. This includes:
1. the construction of a mobile exhibit based on toy bricks (e.g. Lego) and image recognition software and hardware, adapted to the "wind farm planning" scenario
2. an adapted simulation and evaluation of the spatial distribution of wind turbines and their impact on each other and on their surroundings, taking into account legal, environmental and topographic constraints,
3. a visualization (table-top projection) and gamified and collaborative user interaction, where e.g. the placement of the turbines is evaluated with respect to energy yield as well as compliance with various requirements (such as minimum distances) and corresponding feedback (on an additional display) is given.
What is CityScope?
"CityScope is a project conducted at the MIT Media Lab City Science group. It includes a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning challenges. The tools range from simulations that quantify the impact of disruptive interventions in cities to community engagement systems. We develop and deploy these tools around the world and maintain free and open-source community for the majority of our work" (see https://cityscope.media.mit.edu/).
The exhibit can be used both for planning of wind farms and as a communication tool: on the one hand to communicate the complex processes around planning of wind farms towards a better understanding of the challenges of the energy transition, on the other hand as a tool to communicate the relevance of technologies from Geoinformatics in this application field. The exhibit shall be transportable.
The planned project is to be implemented as a cooperation between a Master and a Bachelor study project. The bachelor project will probably focus on the realization of the exhibit based on the CityScope system and the master project will focus on the implementation of the use-case "wind farm planning" (simulation, evaluation, feedback...).
The project is accompanied by Felix Beck, Prof. at the Münster School of Design, Visiting Research Professor at the CITIES Center for Interacting Urban Network at NYU Abu Dhabi, designer and developer of various interactive exhibits.
Contacts: Thomas Bartoschek (bartoschek@uni-muenster.de), Christian Knoth (christian.knoth@uni-muenster.de), Mario Pesch (mario.pesch@uni-muenster.de) |
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