Usman Haque

Usman Haque (born 1971)[1] is an architect and artist who works with technology.

[1][2] Haque's interactive art has appeared at the Singapore Biennale (2006),[3] London Fashion Week (2007)[4] and has been exhibited at KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg,[5] NTT InterCommunication Center,[6] New York's Museum of Modern Art[7] and Barbican Centre.

[10][11] Haque’s contribution to interactive architecture is to distinguish between ‘circular mutual reaction’ and ‘linear causal response’ in designing architectural structures and environments,[12][13] building on Gordon Pask’s cybernetics theories in creating interactive spaces.

[17] Others include Another Life, one of Haque’s permanent interactive installations,[29] located in Bradford, UK; Assemblance, which “lets visitors sculpt and shapes beams of lasers” [sic];[30] Cinder, an augmented reality cat designed "to get students interacting closely with the modern technology";[31] and Starling Crossing, an “interactive road crossing that only appears when needed”.

[32] In the internet of things he is known for founding Pachube in 2007,[33][34] an IoT data platform that “enabled hundreds of Japanese civilians to quickly and easily share weather and radiation data in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster”,[35] acquired by LogMeIn in 2011,[36] renamed Xively and sold on to Google in 2018.