URBAN EYES is a location based installation and critical process design concept. It aims to reawaken our natural drive for exploration and is an experiment into how a lost connection with our surroundings can be re-established.

Using the everyday urban dweller and bastard son of the carrier pigeon, the ever present urban pigeon (Columba livia), and establishing a connection between us humans and those 'flying rats' using modern technology, URBAN EYES crosses and expands our mobility patterns via the pigeon's pattern, through imagery from the bird's journey, delivered to people.

The installation is based on a combination of modular feeding platforms and ringed pigeons. Using Radio Frequency Indentification (RFID) tags in those birdrings, a pigeon who lands on a feeding platform launches a process to publish the pigeon's imagery and messages to surrounding bluetooth devices (phones, organizers, laptops). All the user has to bring is a bluetooth-enabled device and some birdseed. When the feeding platform is web enabled, imagery and messages are delivered by the bird based on information from the surrounding area's publicly available cameras.