Video: Fuehlometer - a lighthouse that shows the general mood in the city
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Cities are like people. They have their own heart (city center), blood vessels (roads), arms and legs (residential areas), head (power structures). They even have a mood. Here, as a barometer of the current mood in the German city of Lindau, an unusual Fuehlometer installationplaced on lighthouse when entering the port. A couple of years ago we are on the site Kulturologia. Ru talked about a dozen of the most amazing lighthouses in the world. Here is a structure located at the entrance to the port of Lindau in Germany, it could well be included in this list. After all, it shows not only the direction of ships sailing to this city, but also the general mood of people in the entire settlement.
Designed by artists Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck0 and Benjamin Maus, this extraordinary installation is a huge glowing smiley face atop a lighthouse.
Moreover, on some days this emoticon may smile, and on some days it may be sad. It depends on what mood the majority of Lindau residents are in. In order to monitor this indicator, several dozen video cameras have been installed on the streets of the city, which recognize people's faces, as well as the presence or absence of smiles on them. If the number of smiling people in Lindau exceeds the number of sad ones, then the smiley face on the Fuehlometer installation glows with happiness, if, on the contrary, with sadness. Software specially created for this purpose is responsible for the management of this entire system.
The smiley face of the Fuehlometer installation is visible from anywhere in this small town (a little less than one and a half thousand inhabitants). So the residents of Lindau, sensing the bad emotional atmosphere in their village, can immediately take measures to correct it - arrange a festival, go to bars, movies, and just start smiling more at each other on the streets.
I must say that an installation similar to Fuehlometer would not interfere with all other cities on Earth, especially large metropolitan areas.
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