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Swing Time is a temporary installation developed within the framework of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority’s urban renewal initiative. The installation integrates energy generation and plays, demonstrating the relation between production and consumption.
'''The objective of My Street ABC is to give people a unique typographic perspective on their everyday urban environment by challenging them to find their own Street ABC. This experience transforms the way they perceive their city, no matter if they’re small kids just learning their ABC’s or educated adults.'''


The urban playscape is composed of 18 welded polypropylene swings, which hang under a customfabricated solar canopy. The swings are designed in three different sizes so that the community can engage and play with Swing Time as individuals or in groups.
Back in 2002 when Kjell van Ginkel was studying Graphic Design in the Netherlands he noticed that by looking at the streets in a different way, they were filled with unintended letters. He discovered them hiding in the shapes of street markings, fences and shadows among others. Soon, he started photographing these letters and completed his first street alphabet.


Swing Time uses solar energy harvested from a series of photovoltaic cells that translate UV rays into electrical illumination.
The idea lingered in his mind ever since; in 2011 he made a different, more colorful, alphabet from the streets of Rio de Janeiro and in 2017 he used these letters to make an artistic intervention at the entrance of The School of Education from Unicamp in Brazil. It featured letters spelling out E-S-C-O-L-A (school), referring to his firm belief that the city is also a valuable educational space.


Responsive in real-time to environmental conditions, the playscape’s illumination corresponds to a daily accumulation of solar power, translating UV rays into a visual register that indexes the abundance of solar energy. Photovoltaic cells integrated into the canopy capture and store solar energy during daylight hours. Through an automated system, the accumulated energy is distributed into LED lights located on the swings.
In late 2018 he developed this concept further by publishing a “My Street ABC” book. It features a complete alphabet of letters found on streets from all over the world, and challenges people to find their own. We have found that My Street ABC has the unique power to transform the way people perceive their city, no matter if they’re small kids just learning their ABC’s or educated adults.


Moreover, accelerometers installed within each swing directly respond to the acceleration forces and tilt exerted by users.
The next step was the soft-launch of the My Street ABC app (beta), which is still in development and targeted for an official release in late 2020. Using well-established gamification methods, the app motivates people to work in teams to complete their own local Street ABC’s. Depending on the user’s neighbourhood, city or country, the letters will have their own distinctive look. These letters can be shared, rated, and even located on a map through shared location data, giving us a globe-spanning database of these unique Street ABC’s


When the swings are not moving, they emit soft White light, thanks to the energy collected during the day.
[[File:My Street ABC 1.jpeg|500x500px]]


As the swings increase in momentum from a static position, a microcontroller adjusts the LED output through a gradient scale from white blue to purple.
[[File:My Street ABC 2.jpeg|500x500px]]


The responsive elements of Swing Time invite users to interact with the swings and with each other. The overall theme of Swing Time is to entice people of all ages to engage in active public play. Public play creates a community laboratory and raises awareness of energy consumption and production
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Latest revision as of 11:43, 10 November 2020

Author:

Kjell van ginkel

2020

https://www.mystreetabc.com/about
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The objective of My Street ABC is to give people a unique typographic perspective on their everyday urban environment by challenging them to find their own Street ABC. This experience transforms the way they perceive their city, no matter if they’re small kids just learning their ABC’s or educated adults.

Back in 2002 when Kjell van Ginkel was studying Graphic Design in the Netherlands he noticed that by looking at the streets in a different way, they were filled with unintended letters. He discovered them hiding in the shapes of street markings, fences and shadows among others. Soon, he started photographing these letters and completed his first street alphabet.

The idea lingered in his mind ever since; in 2011 he made a different, more colorful, alphabet from the streets of Rio de Janeiro and in 2017 he used these letters to make an artistic intervention at the entrance of The School of Education from Unicamp in Brazil. It featured letters spelling out E-S-C-O-L-A (school), referring to his firm belief that the city is also a valuable educational space.

In late 2018 he developed this concept further by publishing a “My Street ABC” book. It features a complete alphabet of letters found on streets from all over the world, and challenges people to find their own. We have found that My Street ABC has the unique power to transform the way people perceive their city, no matter if they’re small kids just learning their ABC’s or educated adults.

The next step was the soft-launch of the My Street ABC app (beta), which is still in development and targeted for an official release in late 2020. Using well-established gamification methods, the app motivates people to work in teams to complete their own local Street ABC’s. Depending on the user’s neighbourhood, city or country, the letters will have their own distinctive look. These letters can be shared, rated, and even located on a map through shared location data, giving us a globe-spanning database of these unique Street ABC’s

My Street ABC 1.jpeg

My Street ABC 2.jpeg

My Street ABC 3.jpeg

My Street ABC 4.jpeg



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