Idea Statement

Living Square

Group2, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Idea description:

This idea--- Living Square is a system that collects people’s energy and gives the energy back to create human value. There’re many squares in Hong Kong that used as a rest place and numbers of people pass through at day time, after the rush hour, peddler come to the squares and it becomes a business area at night. Our system is installed in these squares, it planted like a tree, collecting energy from the passerby, they can play with it (Pat, poke or kick), and system will generate feedbacks to the action and collect the energy to grow. Two trees can integrate and form a shape together, such as a place of shady. People will gather around it and have a rest. The position of largest tree indicates the place that most people visited in the day time. At night, peddler can select those places to open their small business.

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