knowLEDge
Name + Surname: Ivan Felipe Lizcano Rivera
Nationality: Colombian
Public infrastructure for holistic learning
Dear Student,
Welcome to knowLEDge!
knowLEDge is the first public learning infrastructure worldwide that allows citizens to have access to a variety of spaces in which they can study, work, start a business and have fun. Classrooms, offices, coffees and co-working spaces cohabit to give a holistic learning environment while contemplating city views from the endless boundaries of the system. Lighting up our cities, our trademark LED wall display façade projects real-time gradients of color-coded topics, that portrait the citizens’ behavior while consuming digital content from the internet wherever they might be.
Throughout the day, the gradients change according to people’s interests. From dawn to dusk, the city atmosphere tints itself with the color assigned to the trendiest topic: A distinctive identity each day. Each of the build knowLEDgeinfrastructures powered by solar energy, has unveiled and materialized with color some particular interests from capital cities around the world: London in Cooking, Montreal in Art, and Bogotá in Mental Health, among others.
knowLEDge becomes a pivotal tool that provides different settings to learn, and could help to raise awareness about the overlooked topics that people study outside an academic environment. Individually we learn, but knowLEDge gives us collective identity.