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Usman Haque (born 1971)<ref name=":0" /> is an architect and artist who works with technology. He is known for designing large scale interactive installations and his contributions to Interactive architecture and the Internet of things.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=ArtFacts |title=Usman Haque {{!}} Artist |url=https://artfacts.net/artist/usman-haque/78006 |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=ArtFacts |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-01-29 |title=Tech Weekly Podcast: Usman Haque on the 'internet of everything' |language=en-GB |work=the Guardian |url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2014/jan/29/tech-weekly-podcast-usman-haque-audio |access-date=2023-02-15 |issn=0261-3077 |quote=we hear from architect and artist Usman Haque about his work in dynamic networked installations. An internationally reknowned[sic] technology-based creative, Usman discusses his new alpha project}}</ref>
Haque's interactive art has appeared at the Singapore Biennale (2006),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Walter |date=2006 |title=Uniquely Singapore |url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson9-8-06.asp |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=art net}}</ref> London Fashion Week (2007)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Standard |first=Louise Jury, Evening |date=2012-04-05 |title=Fashion Week to lift off with sky of balloons |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/attractions/fashion-week-to-lift-off-with-sky-of-balloons-6605862.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref> and has been exhibited at KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-11-05 |title=Bevægelig og bevægende kunst |url=https://kunsten.nu/journal/bevaegelig-og-bevaegende-kunst/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=kunsten.nu - Online magasin og kalender for billedkunst |language=da-DK}}</ref> NTT InterCommunication Center,<ref>{{Cite web |title=ICC {{!}} Usman HAQUE |url=https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/participants/usman-haque/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] |language=en}}</ref> New York's Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{Cite web |title=MoMA {{!}} Talk to Me {{!}} Pachube |url=https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/145486/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> and Barbican Centre.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-30 |title=(Inter)facing the future at Barbican's 'Digital Revolution' |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2014/07/01/interfacing-the-future-at-barbicans-digital-revolution |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}</ref>
According to author Owen Hatherley, Haque’s work “defies conventional classification” and “is not what you would immediately think of as architecture”,<ref name="A&F">{{Cite book |last=Hopkins |first=Owen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOFZDwAAQBAJ&q=haque |title=Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World |date=2018-05-29 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-33263-3 |language=en}}</ref> often overlapping both digital art and interactive architecture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Noble |first=Joshua |date=23 June 2010 |title=Exploding Space: Conceptions of Space and Network in Interactive/Dynamic Architectures |url=https://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/jun/23/exploding-space-conceptions-of-space-and-network-i/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Rhizome |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sansone |first=Barbara |date=2010-05-03 |title=The Softspace Of Usman Haque. Choreographies Of Sensations • Digicult {{!}} Digital Art, Design and Culture |url=http://digicult.it/design/the-softspace-of-usman-haque-choreographies-of-sensations/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Digicult {{!}} Digital Art, Design and Culture |language=en}}</ref>
Haque’s contribution to interactive architecture is to distinguish between ‘circular mutual reaction’ and ‘linear causal response’ in designing architectural structures and environments,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barra |first=Danniella Vizcarra |date=October 10, 2019 |title=Enhancing a Sense of Presence: An Insight into the Impact of Interactive Visual Experiences on States of Human Consciousness {{!}} Interactive Architecture Lab |url=http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/enhancing-a-sense-of-presence-an-insight-into-the-impact-of-interactive-visual-experiences-on-states-of-human-consciousness.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215173120/http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/enhancing-a-sense-of-presence-an-insight-into-the-impact-of-interactive-visual-experiences-on-states-of-human-consciousness.html |archive-date=2023-02-15 |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Interactive Architecture Lab |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bolbroe |first=Cameline |url=https://pure.itu.dk/en/publications/making-architecture-become-a-performative-approach-to-engaged-enc |title=Making Architecture Become: A performative approach to engaged encounters between inhabitants, architecture and technology |date=2019 |publisher=IT-Universitetet i København |isbn=978-87-7949-028-4}}</ref> building on Gordon Pask’s cybernetics theories in creating interactive spaces.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Temizel |first=Ensar |date=2022-02-01 |title=Reclaiming Machine Intelligence: The Paskian School of Architectural Cybernetics - A thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of Middle East Technical University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture |url=https://open.metu.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11511/96765/14_temizel_thesis_16april_final.pdf |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Middle East Technical University |type=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kolarevic |first1=Branko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1jeCQAAQBAJ&q=haque |title=Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change |last2=Parlac |first2=Vera |date=2015-06-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-65078-2 |language=en}}</ref>
==Education== Haque studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture<ref>{{Cite web |last=UCL |date=2021-05-20 |title=Alumni Interviews |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/people/alumni/alumni-interviews |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=The Bartlett School of Architecture |language=en}}</ref> and was part of the Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop.<ref>{{Cite web |last=UCL |date=2016-12-06 |title=Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop (BIAW) |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/research/bartlett-interactive-architecture-workshop-biaw |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=The Bartlett School of Architecture |language=en}}</ref>
==Selected projects== * ''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”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamblyn |first=Richard |title=A celestial journey – Tate Etc |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-5-autumn-2005/celestial-journey |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=McCormack |first=Derek P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8etmDwAAQBAJ&q=sky+ear |title=Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment |date=2018-07-27 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-7173-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bullivant |first=Lucy |date=2005 |title=Sky Ear, Usman Haque |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.6 |journal=Architectural Design |language=en |volume=75 |issue=Special Issue '4dspace: Interactive Architecture' |pages=8–11 |doi=10.1002/ad.6 |issn=0003-8504|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Open Burble'', “a 70m tall structure consisting of 1000 extra-large helium balloons, supported by 140 carbon-fibre hexagonal units”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-03-13 |title=Category winners of Designs of the Year awards |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2008/03/13/category-winners-of-designs-of-the-year-awards/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Dezeen |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Andersson |first1=Lasse |last2=Thomsen |first2=Bo Stjerne |date=2008 |title=Performative experiments and cultural re-planning - recapturing the spectacle of the city |url=http://arkitekturforskning.net/na/article/viewFile/121/92 |journal=Nordic Journal of Architectural Research |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=43–44}}</ref> * ''Haunt'', “a scientifically haunted room”<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Keim |first=Brandon |title=Scientifically Haunted House Suggests You're a Sucker |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/10/scientifically-haunted-house/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=French |first1=Christopher C. |last2=Haque |first2=Usman |last3=Bunton-Stasyshyn |first3=Rosie |last4=Davis |first4=Rob |date=May 2009 |title=The "Haunt" project: An attempt to build a "haunted" room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010945208001299 |journal=Cortex |language=en |volume=45 |issue=5 |pages=619–629 |doi=10.1016/j.cortex.2007.10.011|pmid=18635163 |s2cid=3944854 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Evoke'', “a riot of projected colours...on the imposing 60 metre-high front of York Minster”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-10-25 |title=Installation sheds psychedelic light on York Minster's facade |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/installation-sheds-psychedelic-light-on-york-minster-s-facade-397957.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> * ''Reconfigurable House'', “an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vale |date=2008-06-02 |title=The Reconfigurable House, how to remain smarter than your house. {{!}} Neural |url=https://neural.it/2008/06/the-reconfigurable-house-how-to-remain-smarter-than-your-house/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''Natural Fuse'', “ a network of houseplants attached to the electrical system, which monitor energy use”<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-10-16 |title=Sentient cities may answer back |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8310627.stm |access-date=2023-02-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=DiSalvo |first=Carl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gdcGEAAAQBAJ&q=natural%20fuse |title=Adversarial design |date=2012 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-01738-1 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |oclc=755213451 |quote=to use Haque's Natural Fuse is to engage in politicized interaction with others }}</ref>
Others include ''Another Life,'' one of Haque’s permanent interactive installations,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Waite |first=Richard |date=2012-02-22 |title=Water beauty: Bradford's city centre park completes |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/water-beauty-bradfords-city-centre-park-completes |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=The Architects’ Journal |language=en}}</ref> located in Bradford, UK; ''Assemblance'', which “lets visitors sculpt and shapes beams of lasers” [sic];<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mackay |first=Mairi |date=2014-07-07 |title=Touch it, you know you want to. The hands-on world of digital art |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/world/europe/digital-revolution/index.html |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> ''Cinder'', an augmented reality cat designed "to get students interacting closely with the modern technology";<ref>{{Cite web |last=Snead |first=Flo |date=2016-10-05 |title=Meet Cinder: Trumpington Community College's new virtual cat |url=http://www2.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/meet-cinder-virtual-cat-taken-11985243 |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=CambridgeshireLive |language=en}}</ref> and ''Starling Crossing'', an “interactive road crossing that only appears when needed”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=This smart, shapeshifting crosswalk may be the key to safer streets |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/watch-intelligent-crosswalk-light-protect-pedestrians-ncna811996 |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>
In the internet of things he is known for founding Pachube in 2007,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Augmented business |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2010/11/06/augmented-business |access-date=2023-03-14 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dodson |first=Sean |date=2008-10-15 |title=The net shapes up to get physical |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/16/internet-of-things-ipv6 |access-date=2023-03-14 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> 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”,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bridle |first=James |date=2014-06-18 |title=Beyond Pong: why digital art matters |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/18/-sp-why-digital-art-matters |access-date=2023-02-15 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> acquired by LogMeIn in 2011,<ref>{{Cite web |title=LogMeIn buys 'Internet of Things' firm for $15M |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2011/07/19/logmein-buys-internet-of-things-firm.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Boston Business Journal}}</ref> renamed Xively and sold on to Google in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-16 |title=Google Acquires Xively for IoT PaaS Push |url=https://abopen.com/news/google-acquires-xively-iot-paas-push/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=AB Open |language=en-US}}</ref> He also founded Thingful, a search engine for the internet of things, in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Meg |date=May 12, 2014 |title=This Search Engine For The Internet Of Things Promises To Make Data More Meaningful To People |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3030496/indexing-the-internet-of-things-thingful-promises-to-make-data-meaningful-to-people |access-date=Feb 21, 2023 |website=Fast Company}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Austen |first=Kat |date=18 December 2013 |title=Thingful site brings linked Internet of Things to life |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24771-thingful-site-brings-linked-internet-of-things-to-life/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== Haque won a Japan Media Arts Festival ''Excellence Award'' in 2004<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archive |first=Japan Media Arts Festival |title=Excellence Award - Sky Ear {{!}} Award {{!}} Art Division {{!}} 2004 [8th] |url=http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp/en/festival/2004/art/works/08a_sky_ear/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Japan Media Arts Festival Archive |language=en}}</ref> and was a Brit Insurance Design Awards winner in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Etherington |first1=Rose |title=Category winners of Designs of the Year awards |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2008/03/13/category-winners-of-designs-of-the-year-awards/ |website=Dezeen |access-date=8 February 2023 |language=en |date=13 March 2008}}</ref> He was appointed a Design Council Ambassador in 2021<ref>{{cite web |title=Design Council announces new network of design experts |url=https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/news-opinion/design-council-announces-new-network-design-experts/ |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=Design Council |language=en}}</ref> and in 2022 he joined the London Mayor's Data for London Advisory Board.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mayor cements London as new centre for data innovation {{!}} London City Hall |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/Mayor%20appoints%20Data%20for%20London%20Board |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=Greater London Authority |language=en}}</ref>
==Further reading== * [https://mags.acm.org/interactions/20090102?pg=71 What is Interaction - Are there different types?] Interactions - January/February 2009, by Hugh Dubberly, Paul Pangaro and Usman Haque * [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1071581915000488 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 * [https://books.google.com/books?id=tLro7faJoiIC&q=usman%20haque Interview with Usman Haque in Programming Interactivity]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Noble |first1=Joshua |title=Programming Interactivity. |date=2012 |publisher=O'Reilly Media |location=Sebastopol |isbn=9781449311445 |pages=462–463 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLro7faJoiIC&q=usman%20haque |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref> * [https://www.forbes.com/sites/hesterlacey/2014/03/24/how-to-design-projects-to-engage-and-empower-the-architect-re-imagining-our-cities/ Designing Projects That Thrill And Empower: The Architect Who Taught A City To Fly] * [https://gwern.net/doc/design/visualization/2007-haque.pdf The Architectural Relevance of Gordon Pask], by Usman Haque <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haque |first=Usman |date=July 2007 |title=The Architectural Relevance of Gordon Pask |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.487 |journal=Architectural Design |language=en |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=54–61 |doi=10.1002/ad.487 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215173119/https://gwern.net/doc/design/visualization/2007-haque.pdf |archive-date=2023-02-15|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * [https://we-make-money-not-art.com/game_set_and_ma_2/ Paskian Environments], by Regine Debatty <ref>{{Cite web |last=Debatty |first=Régine |date=2006-03-31 |title=Paskian Environments |url=https://we-make-money-not-art.com/game_set_and_ma_2/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=We Make Money Not Art |language=en-US}}</ref>
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