Embedding an interactive art installation into a building for enhancing citizen's awareness on urban environmental conditions

The paper presents an artwork, embedded in a public-use building complex, comprising four interactive, sight specific installations. The artwork employs ubiquitous computing technologies and a variety of other components (projector, LED matrix displays, physical and custom-made objects) to sense, collect and translate urban, environmental data and human input into evolving multisensory representations, affording hybrid spatial experiences. The artwork aims at highlighting the impact of human activity upon the environment and the nonhuman entities that inhabit it, shifting the focus to a post-anthropocentric view of the world.