So, welcome to the afternoon sessions in Studio 2. I hope you all swell and fine.

We'll now start with a 60-minute session, Interactive Landscapes, focusing on some interactive design projects created by Studio Rosegaard from the Netherlands. And they have sent a lovely Lidi Brouwer all the way from Netherlands to join us here on stage. And, yes, you can come on stage already. Give her a warm welcome.

She'll be presenting some of their works for about 40 minutes and then go into a Q&A session. So, you might come up with some witty questions already. Enjoy. Thank you. Hello, welcome. Thank you for the invitation to speak at Republika. I work for Studio Rosegarden. My name is Lidi Brouwer.

I study Chinese and Mandarin Chinese. So, I started to work for Studio Rosegarden at the studio in China. Here you see the studio in the Netherlands in a small city near Rotterdam. We work with a team of designers and engineers and technicians.

This is a studio in China. We develop our own technology and microchips so we don't have to worry about software and we always can program it ourselves. Here you can see Intimacy.

A work that went viral many times. So, I think you might know it. I suppose you do. It are dresses that become transparent when they wear the heartbeat races of the model, so then

the more excited she becomes, the more transparent the dress will be.

This movie, you saw the second, the 2.0 version we made, which is also with leather. So, it's more wearable than the first version we made. And here you can see Dan Rosegarden, the designer and the artist from Studio Rosegarden

presenting it to Maxima, our queen, who had been crowned last week. Proposing her to wear the dress on the next occasion to be one of the most innovative people in the Netherlands, possibly the world. She looks like she still might need a few sessions with Dan

to convince her to really wear it next time. Here you can see June, one of our first works. We like to show our artworks in public spaces and to get a dialogue with people that live and that

used to come there all the time. Here we place it in Rotterdam, in a tunnel. It's a little bit scary and dark and people don't like to go there. It used to be very criminal and now it's more subtle.

As a studio, we like to think what happens when technology jumps out of the computer screen and becomes part of our landscape and our lives. And here you can see even wedding couples, they came to this duchy tunnel where no one used to come and then they started to make their wedding pictures there because they thought it was more friendly and happy and futuristic.

June is next week, it will open at the Stedelijk Museum, which is very prestige in Holland. So it really pops up in elite settings and in settings like this, which we think is very interesting.

And this is the permanent version in Rotterdam outside. We're also very pragmatic. Here 60 meters of June only uses 60 watts. So in the beginning, because we wanted to have it as dark as possible, we needed to remove the public lighting that was already there.

But they didn't really want to remove it, they wanted to pay for the artwork and take care of it. And then it turned out that the 60 meters only uses 60 watts and then they were very happy to remove the three lamps that were already there and take care of the artwork.

Another artwork we did last year, we launched last year are the marbles. Also in a setting, it's in an area which also shows your housing.

So it was also a little bit, there used to be a basketball play field and people did not really like to come there, certainly not during the night. And now they really, the kids are playing there and...

...teaser we made, we were tweaking it in the studio. So the public spaces, we wonder what's happening, how would Facebook square look like when you put it in the real world?

This is the embodiment of it, like a little campfire, a bonfire. Crystal is also our latest work. It will be released in September in the Netherlands.

We will have a new public space in Eindhoven in the Natlab. Einstein used to work there and the light bulb used to be manufactured in that area at Stripe S. It's an artwork that actually can be stolen. As you can see here, they're separated crystals. You can put them on the, we enhance, we have a mat on the floor and when you place a crystal on it, it starts to light up.

It enhances the magnetic fields from the earth and we help it also a little bit of course. You can see the evolution, first you have candles, light bulbs and now we have lights you can carry with you basically.

The first, the artwork crystal we first made was with real crystals, so we grow them. We have an LED and then we grow the crystal around it and dip it in a raisin. And you can just play with it and write letters and actually you can write stories in a very public way.

So that's what we all do via Twitter, via Facebook.

The circle is the artwork that's traveling, it will be in Moscow this summer and now you can see it in Amsterdam. The funny thing with crystal, the experience you already have till now is that people when they see that there are many, many white crystals and just a few blue ones, they start to steal the blue ones, they take them with them, which is okay, we like it.

You cherish a place and you have a souvenir that you've been there or you can take one and give it to your boyfriend and then you can come together to put a crystal there like a wish fountain. And we also want to make partnerships for the real public version with different companies.

So you can make your own crystal or you can grow your own crystal or you can, well, we will share the technology of the crystal, that's what we want to do. Here you can see, you can make, well, ride with it, make a pub, campfire.

Another intervention we did last year was Lotus Dome in Lille, the city, it's an old beautiful city, small city actually, with a beautiful old center and there are churches like this and no one goes there and then the city asks us, can you help us to get people back into these, well, to respect these old buildings a little bit more and not to be afraid to go there.

And then we made this artwork which is Lotus Dome.

You hear the sub here, it's also with the real version, that's not vibrating as much as this one. It did work, people, you notice there was an angel in the movie, it did work, people that went there, they were indeed like,

oh wow, look, there's a little angel there and look at the painting in the windows. They started to appreciate this church which is open for exhibition now, exhibitions now a bit more. This is a beautiful example of how our studio works.

The technique of Lotus Dome, I'm not going to talk about it, but the material also developed it ourselves. It starts to fold when the light is touching it and the light is going on when you approach the dome basically. So it's very intuitive, very interactive and it really acts like a flower, that's why we called it Lotus.

You can see some more pictures and it's also, in the movie you saw that it's making watery shapes when the light is shining, it's turning around inside. And here you can see little angels as well, a little bit in the shades here with the black one.

Lotus Dome will be exhibiting in Jerusalem in June, in a cave actually, which is also very beautiful and an intervention you don't really expect. This is our sustainable dance floor, you might know it. It's a floor that's generating its own electricity, so when you dance in it, the tiles, it works like a dynamo.

When you dance in it, you get electricity and then the more electricity, the more you dance, then it's the green spots. That's where the most electricity is being generated.

You can see close up and here you see how it works. Well, out of this fascination, our other latest project started to develop. A lot of people, a lot of electricity, so when you dance in it, so what happens if you apply it to roads? And here you can see a car of wind lights.

The cars, they generate a lot of electricity driving over the road, but also the wind that you feel when the car is passing by. That's how you will, well, you can also think of public lighting for a highway like that. Or paints that show whether the road is cold or warm and when it's cold, the

ice will, the ice patterns will show and then you will be alarmed, watch out, it's slippery. These were, the Smart Highways idea, Dan Rosgaard and the artists talked about it a lot in lectures. And then one day, this guy was in public.

He's one of the biggest, the boss, the CEO of the road manufacturer, Heimans, in Holland. And they're making now this road that will release the end of 2013 in Brabhams in the Netherlands. It's paints that charges during the day and gives light at night, so you don't need street lights anymore.

This is the first time I've seen a Smart Highway in the world. I'm sure you've seen it before. I'm sure you've seen it before.

So Smart Highway became world famous as well, online mainly. Even in Japan. And here you can see a short movie with prototypes featured. This is also a feature, one you saw in the movie I didn't explain, it's broken lines.

You can also shut electricity through the paint and then they will show unbroken. And a priority lane which charges the car while it's driving over it.

So very practical for electronic cars. And you don't have to worry about the pillars and charging your car and being out of Vadibi and stuff like that. This is a typical Dutch landscape. Here you can see a little bit of June, the first project we did. But then the natural version.

In Kinderdijk, windmills, big huge landscape machines basically. And we're also making a Kinderdijk 2.0 version of it. You can see it here. This is a project that will be released in 2015 in this animation.

And the faster the windmills will spin, the more shapes you will show.

So it's all about creating the missing link. You can do it in a public way with art in public spaces.

That's it. Are there some questions?

There is a microphone in the middle. No?

Yeah, sorry. I was wondering how are you powering these crystals? How are you powering these crystals with these LEDs inside? Yeah, how are we? Sorry.

How are you powering these LEDs, like these crystals with these LEDs inside? Are there kind of solar panels inside or a battery? No, no, that's the whole thing. There's no battery in it. There are small LEDs with a copper wire. And then we grow salt solution around it and then we dip it in the resin.

And we made a mat. You saw the circle, which is enhancing the magnetic field from the earth. And we help it as well a little bit. And then it starts to light up when you put it, when you come near the fields. Great idea.

Hey, thanks for the presentation. I wanted to ask you, how is everything paid?

I mean, I understood that it's mainly for public places. So probably the city hall is taking care of these kind of things. But how do you present a project for these guys? Well, it's the bigger project. We look for partner, which is basically also my job.

So the highway, we look for a road manufacturer that's going to help us to make them. And other works like the dress that becomes transparent, we self-commission it. So it's a bit of an entrepreneurial risk you take, that's true. But that's the fun part of it.

And if an idea is good, if you think you can build it, then the clients will come. Thank you.

More questions? No? No? Okay. Thank you.