Finally providing us entrepreneuring city planners with a way to grow our own Combine (Half-Life 2, not John Deere), R&Sie is developing a piece for the yet-to-exist Bangkok Art Museum that literally feeds off the city’s pollution. Titled “Dusty Relief”, the installation will use electrically charged wire that pulls all the floaties out of the air and effectively grows fur—skany, icky fur. The images remind me of those jars of iron filings you’d get in those old-school chemistry sets and always lose/eat/use as spitball chaff. Their site leaves a lot to be desired, but apparently they’re working on some other cool projects as well—think buildings whose walls and floors can change on the fly based on the “needs and desires of the inhabitants” (Lucille I vs. Lucille II).
