The Landmark Interactive Bus Stop  

The research project Flexible Urban Displays by David Bouchard and Sajid Sadi in collaboration with Orkan Telhan explores how programmable surfaces can be shaped and textured in more flexible ways than traditional LED displays. By using modular tiles as building blocks, displays can become an integral part of objects, structures and spaces. Through appropriate use of digital technology, a bus stops is turned into a sensual, engaging, memorable self-organized landmark.

DafurDafur at the Jewish Meuseum in Berlin, image by Helene Caux

DARFUR/DARFUR, conceived of by Leslie Thomas, is a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected changing images that provide visual education about the richly multi-cultural region while exposing the horrors of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The event will present photographs taken in Darfur by internationally acclaimed photojournalists including a US Marine. Launched in New York on September 18th the exhibit will travel to 24 cities over 24 months

More than 200,000 civilians have been victims of violence in Darfur since February 2003. Executions, murders, rapes and the burning of villages are all part of the agenda. Over two million people are living in refugee camps on the border to Chad and at least four million - more than half of Darfur’s population - are completely reliant on international aid.