Kinecity and Future Face revisited

In November of last year, I highlighted Kinecity's proposal for a World Trade Center Installation. The site now features more of their projects and proposals, in particular the Comment Wall proposal caught my eye:

Comment Wall is a wall where people can write their thoughts directly onto a wall using their fingers. The camera-recognition system remembers their text and displays it over time. The further away you stand from the wall; the most distant texts are displayed. As you come forward, more and more recent texts are uncovered until, when you are in front of the wall itself, a blank area is created for you to write your own.

Kinecity is Marek Walczak, Jakub Segen and Michael McAllister. I'm a long-time admirer of Marek's work (and collaborations with Martin Wattenberg), and I'm pleased to see the Future Face group he takes part in has a massively updated website since I last visited. It now includes overviews of lots of their ideas, as well as a tag cloud, a concept map and an RSS feed to help make sense of it all. Brilliant.

Playground

Christian Schneider has made a building block application called Playground where all visitors can edit the same blocks. A bit like a lego-style wiki, perhaps? It would be nice to see how it gets modified over time, and what participants would do if they were set tasks or themes like the participants of Swarm Sketch are given.