My role
Natural Networks was a project using poetry and artificial intelligence to connect humans to natural environments. It was exhibited as part of London Design Festival.
Giving a voice to water
The system consists of a series of floating buoys collecting environmental data from different locations across the UK canal network. Data is sent via the internet to a remote computer.
The data is then processed by a machine learning algorithm, trained to generate poems from a large set of twentieth century poetry.
By giving water a voice, the project explores the notion of non-human intelligence and highlights the importance of listening to our surroundings.
“One of the most thought provoking projects of London Design Festival”
L:SN
Credits
The project was a collaboration with Six:Thirty and Matteo Loglio and developed with the support of the Canal and River Trust. Natural Networks was exhibited as part of ‘Water’ at London Design Festival. Photography by Owen Richards.
