Usman Haque designs & builds spaces, structures, systems, platforms & companies. He works across many fields and scales, from interactive installations to networked environments, from participatory spectacles to urban infrastructure.
Companies · Organisations · Studios
HAQUE TAN
Design studio combining architecture+art+technology
Co-founder
2024
Umbrellium
Technology design & build studio dedicated to urban environments
Founder
2007
Starling Technologies
Balancing the flow of people and vehicles in real-time
Co-founder
2020-2026
Thingful.net
Search engine & interoperability for the internet of things
Founder
2013-2022
Pachube.com
Early Internet of Things data platform & community
Founder
2007-2011
Interactive Architecture • Urban Initiatives • Participatory Spectacles
Large-scale deployments, installations, events, and public interventions that transform how people relate to each other and their environments
T(h)ree
Landscape intervention giving voice to a 200-year old tree
2025
Strata
Interactive architectural interventions in Barking Power Station
2024
Cloud of Impossibility
Interactive tensegrity structure transforming a venue entrance
2024
Wild Imaginarium
New Interactive Entrance for Great Ormond Street Hospital
2024
Re:Wild Royal Docks
Ten-year vision for urban wilding in East London
2021
Cinder
Mixed-reality installation integrated into a BMS
2016
Assemblance
Collaborative immersive environment built on motion-tracked lasers
2014
Another Life
Interactive urban environment in Bradford's City Park
2012
Marling
Urban-scale aurora brought to life by people's voices
2012
DIY City 0.01a
Configurable projection system for urban-scale interactive events
2012
Flightpath Toronto
Flylines, lasers & flightschool for low-carbon rapid public transport
2011
Primal Source
Floating cloud activated by the voices of thousands
2008
Evoke
Interactive projection on York Minster's facade
2007
Reconfigurable House
House embedded with thousands of low-tech sensors & actuators
2007
Project Unspecified
Inflatable structure designed and built by the public
2007
Open Burble
18-storey interactive structure designed & controlled by public
2006
Sky Ear
Floating structure that responds to mobile phones and EMF
2004
Scents of Space
Chamber for 3D positioning of fragrances without dispersion
2002
Moody Mushroom Floor
Interactive floor system with sound, light & smell outputs
1996
Connected Environments • Networked Objects • Invisible Topographies
Distributed systems, spaces and devices that sense and act across distance, creating shared experiences between geographically remote participants
VoiceOver
Hyper-local social radio network for communities
2016
Miscommunications No. 6
Dozens of microphones & speakers infiltrate a museum
2010
Natural Fuse
Networked plant-pots that form a collective carbon-sink
2008
Huey-Dewey-Louie Climate Clock
Self-building landscape that measures & tracks climate change
2008
Scattered House
Connecting environments across Budapest & London
2008
Remote
Real-time interaction between Second Life & a space in Boston
2007
Wifi Camera
Camera that captures images of spaces illuminated by wifi
2006
Evolving Sonic Environment
Acoustically-coupled neural network learns about its environment
2005
Flower of My Secret
Repository for the public's dreams, memories, secrets & stories
2005
Haunt
Recreating the environmental conditions of haunted spaces
2004
Worldview
Urban installation creating real-time windows around the world
2001
Japanese Whispers
Collaborative performance using dozens of mobile phones
2000
Urban Constellations
Solar powered lighting distributed and viewed around town
2000
Global Village Bank
Web-based currency transaction system & community
1997
Experiments • Research • Prototypes
Projects designed to test ideas, interactions and hypotheses prior to implementation at larger scale
More Than Human Citizen Assembly
Collective Decision-Making with Non-human neighbours
2023
Siphonophora
Devices floating in a lake respond to aquatic life & conditions
2009
EEML
Protocol for sharing sensor data between remote environments
2007
Furu Furi
Large-scale interactive robotic structures
2006
Configurable T-shirt
T-shirt & configuration website designed for World Cup 2006
2006
Low Tech
Manual for hacking inexpensive sensors & actuators
2004
Open Source Arch Expt
Series of experiments in open source architecture & inflatables
2003
Infinitum Ad Nauseam
Dynamic projection for choreographed & improvised dance
2000
Speculations
Exploratory designs, drawings and unbuilt ideas
Floatables
Drifting jellyfish-like vessels create ephemeral zones of privacy
2003
Miscommunications No. 1
Meditations on iterative (mis)communication
2000
Mischievous Museum
Museum that creates its own taxonomy daily
1997
Conversations with a Kettle...
House full of connected appliances that whisper & spread gossip
1996
Home as an Idea
Space of absence - sound, heat, smell and annoying phone calls
1993
Safely dangerous vertical playground
Playground of fire, spikes, ladders, trampolines and long, long falls
1991