In early 2017, I became one of the research fellows in the new Strelka Institute educational program The New Normal 2017, directed by Benjamin H. Bratton. I have the pleasure to work with 4 other fellows and develop our final project Phi, a speculative system for future energy.
Phi is first designed as a p2p network of value that incentivized a global clean energy system of dynamic balance, then designed as an intuitive collaborative design tool for energy production, management, and financial transactions.
Phi aspires a future of fair, decentralized and balanced ecosystem, by connecting energy and money via cryptocurrency mining, a rising industry that consume energy to compute and produce digital value. Phi not only rewards Phi coin to users who invest clean energy system (by purchasing infrastructures, producing clean energy or pledging a community proposal) but also allows users to design their own tokens to encourage their communities to develop a more desirable energy strategy (such as a token that rewards energy saving).
By designing an easy-to-use interface, which comprises of a map-based microgrid simulation, a slack-like chatroom, and an omnipresent intelligent chatbot, Phi gives access to non-expert users to participate this hybrid system of energy, finance, and governance. The map-based simulation is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get design tool that let the users model, predict and simulate their clean energy networks together; the slack-like chatroom allows users to design, negotiate and decide how to spend/raise communal funds; the omnipresent chatbot provides data and information, assists decision-making while having its own personality. The interface is more than a visual representation of the project or an organization of complex workflows but aiming to make clean energy future more accessible and exciting for everyday users moving towards a healthier future.
Here with some of the snippets:
Latest version:
Phi is first designed as a p2p network of value that incentivized a global clean energy system of dynamic balance, then designed as an intuitive collaborative design tool for energy production, management, and financial transactions.
Phi aspires a future of fair, decentralized and balanced ecosystem, by connecting energy and money via cryptocurrency mining, a rising industry that consume energy to compute and produce digital value. Phi not only rewards Phi coin to users who invest clean energy system (by purchasing infrastructures, producing clean energy or pledging a community proposal) but also allows users to design their own tokens to encourage their communities to develop a more desirable energy strategy (such as a token that rewards energy saving).
By designing an easy-to-use interface, which comprises of a map-based microgrid simulation, a slack-like chatroom, and an omnipresent intelligent chatbot, Phi gives access to non-expert users to participate this hybrid system of energy, finance, and governance. The map-based simulation is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get design tool that let the users model, predict and simulate their clean energy networks together; the slack-like chatroom allows users to design, negotiate and decide how to spend/raise communal funds; the omnipresent chatbot provides data and information, assists decision-making while having its own personality. The interface is more than a visual representation of the project or an organization of complex workflows but aiming to make clean energy future more accessible and exciting for everyday users moving towards a healthier future.
Here with some of the snippets:
Latest version:
