Arch-OS was invited to run a session at the very cool Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture in Utrecht. Chris Speed and Justin Roberts escaped the Devon snow to play with some Arch-OS toys.

“Hidden in the former utility area of a vacant 13 floor office in Utrecht, the "Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture" will evolve an empty room from nothingness into unknown states of technological enhancement. Unlike the alphabet that always knows where it is going, this workshop does not.”

http://socialfiction.org/crystalpunk/workshop.php

They said:

“Some Early Arch-OS Aftermath

The lovely Arch-OS rocked the Crystalpunk Workshop last Saturday. They turned out to have a semi-secret website that updates data from 40 sensors (windfans, humidity, rain and lots more) in there building about every few seconds. They left 2 PDFs explaining how to read data in both Flash and Shockwave.

As the data is in XML crystalpunks started playing with it in their own Language of Choice. Python scripts that need more work are coming, while Tom noodled together a Processing applet that dresses up our building in coloury goo determined on the state in the Arch-OS building.

.... now thats soft architecture for you!”

Many thanks to Wilfried Hou Je Bek wilfriedhoujebek@yahoo.com for the opportunity.

And if anyone wants access to the “semi-secret website”, its here:

http://arch-os.scce.plymouth.ac.uk/real_index.html