Usman Haque

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Usman Haque is an architect^[1] and artist^[2] who works with technology^[3]. He is known for designing large scale spectacular interactive installations^[4][5], and his contributions to interactive architecture^[6][7] and the internet of things.^[8]

Born in 1971^[2], Haque studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture and was part of the Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop^[9].

Haque's interactive art has appeared at the Singapore Biennale (2006)^[10], London Fashion Week (2007)^[11] and has been exhibited at KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg^[12], NTT InterCommunication Center^[13], New York's Museum of Modern Art^[14] and Barbican Centre^[15][16].

Haque’s work “defies conventional classification” and “is not what you would immediately think of as architecture”^[17][18], often overlapping both digital art and interactive architecture.

Notable early projects include:

• Sky Ear, “a cloud of 1,000 helium balloons launched into the evening sky with a payload of mobile phones, sensor circuits and flashing LEDs”^[19][20]
• Open Burble, “an interactive structure that floated up 18 story’s(sic) high”^[21][22]
• Haunt, “a scientifically haunted room”^{[23] [24]}
• Evoke, “a riot of projected colours… on the imposing 60 metre-high front of York Minster”^{[25] [26]}
• Reconfigurable House, “an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors”^[27]
• Natural Fuse, “a city-wide network of electronically-assisted plants”^{[28][29][30][31][32]}

Another Life is one of Haque’s permanent interactive installations^[33][34], located in Bradford, UK. Other notable projects include Assemblance, which “lets visitors sculpt and shapes beams of lasers”^[35]; Cinder, an “augmented reality creature [that] ‘lives in the school’”^[36]; and Starling Crossing, an “interactive road crossing that only appears when needed”^[37][38][39].

Haque’s contribution to interactive architecture is to distinguish between ‘circular mutual reaction’ and ‘linear causal response’ in designing architectural structures and environments^[40][41][42], and builds on Gordon Pask’s cybernetics theories in creating interactive spaces^[43][44].

In the internet of things he is known for founding Pachube in 2007^[45], an IoT data platform that “enabled hundreds of Japanese civilians to quickly and easily share weather and radiation data in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster”^[46], acquired by LogMeIn in 2011^[47], transformed into Xively and sold on to Google in 2018^[48]. He also founded Thingful, a search engine for the internet of things, in 2013^[49][50][51].

Haque was a Brit Insurance Design Awards winner in 2008,^[52] and won a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2004^[53]. He was appointed a Design Council Ambassador in 2021^[54] and in 2022 he joined the London Mayor's Data for London Advisory Board.^[55]

• What is Interaction - Are there different types? Interactions - January/February 2009, by Hugh Dubberly, Paul Pangaro and Usman Haque
• Urban computing in the wild: A survey on large scale participation and citizen engagement with ubiquitous computing, cyber physical systems, and Internet of Things by Flora Salim and Usman Haque
• Interview with Usman Haque in Programming Interactivity^[56]
• Designing Projects That Thrill And Empower: The Architect Who Taught A City To Fly

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