Dutch creative person Daan Roosegaarde has designed everything fromsmart main road for the United Kingdomtoa dance flooring that generates electrical energy . But his tardy project is the most off - the - rampart yet : Roosegaarde plans to build up and test a pollution - hoard organization in smogginess - befuddled Beijing .
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placard as an “ electronic vacancy cleaner ” for Beijing ’s contaminated skies , the so - call Smog system throws an unexpected answer at a complicated problem . Much in the same direction that a static - buck balloon attract hair , this pollution - guttle set - up uses copper scroll buried under grassto create static champaign and attract smogginess particlesto the dry land . Once pull from the sky , the corpuscle can be compressed and repurposed .
And Beijing is down with the idea . Roosegaarde ’s Shanghai - based design firm , Studio Roosegaarde , latterly forge an agreement with Beijing ’s mayor to test the conception in one of the city ’s common . The system should be open of clearing a 22,500 square human foot surface area of readable sky in the otherwise smoggy parking area , showing local citizen what life-time could be like without the pollution . “ Here , the absence of the smog is the design and I care that , ” RoosegaardetoldWired . “ For me design is not about chair and lamp or tables , what you know Dutch design to be . I like think of designs that enable and meliorate liveliness . ”
That ’s an admirable philosophy , and one that translate to Roosegaarde ’s other work . Take “ Crystal , ” another new project , for instance . These littleLED pebbleslight up when you interact with them — Roosegaarde describes them as “ the new LEGO from Mars . ” Beyond being a fun art project , Roosegaarde say some cities are interested in using the technology as a “ particular public transport slate . ” Because if you ’re run to use something every twenty-four hour period , why should n’t it be beautiful ? [ Dezeen ]
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