Next (& more constructive) idea: If we want to get serious about sustainable living, we need to start making more of our infrastructure visible. Not directly, but in a stylized way - effectively doing for buildings what those skin suits showing muscle/bones/organs do for humans.
We have no idea how much we consume or how our society works because we've made all the critical bits invisible. We can't see how much we depend on them. So let's have artwork across some walls inside & outside buildings that show where power lines run & where boilers are.
Even better, you could also add QR codes near those diagrams, so people could look up what's flowing through the real pipes/powerlines in real time & how it depends on the situation.
And @DavidPriceUCL , can we do this at @ucl ? I'd love to see some paintwork on the floor of Malet Place showing the infrastructure underneath! Excellent engineering education too ;)
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