Desire Lanes - 2022

 

This concept is based on the urge of people to take the shortest route. In cities, shared space becomes more common, roadways blend into bike paths and traffic crossings merge together with pedestrian areas. 

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This interactive light art installation uses AI image recognition to show the elephant paths and recent history of passers-by on a square.
With the installation Desire Lanes, the walking routes of pedestrians are followed by cameras and anonymized into light movements that are live projected onto the street in the evening.
A multi-colored light installation that shows how paths cross, avoid and merge. Visitors can look back in time, see which routes were walked before them, and thus play with information that would otherwise remain invisible. In this way,
technology becomes visible, recent history tangible and passers-by become aware of their place in the public space.
 

Desire Lanes shows the use and energy of the square to bridge the distance between strangers and facilitate unexpected interactions between passers-by.

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