Human intent
Preserve access to clean water, public space and direct embodied experience as cities become more instrumented and mediated by software.
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Swimmable CitiesMake urban swimming discoverable.
Active iOS prototype plus archived urban proposal
A spatial project connecting public data, everyday recreation and a larger civic intent: cities where clean water is something people can safely enter, not just look at.
System / agent action
Map swimmable places using public geographic and weather data, surface water conditions, and make existing urban swimming infrastructure easier to discover.
Hard boundary
The software can help reveal places and conditions, but public data does not prove that every location is safe at every moment. The archived Tainan work therefore framed river swimming as a cleanup and public-space proposal, not simply a map pin.
INTENT PRESERVATION / CORE
The software can help reveal places and conditions, but public data does not prove that every location is safe at every moment. The archived Tainan work therefore framed river swimming as a cleanup and public-space proposal, not simply a map pin.
Evidence in the system
- The current iOS prototype uses OpenStreetMap and Open-Meteo public data with no API keys.
- It includes an interactive globe of 16 cities and live swim-spot search.
- An earlier bilingual Tainan project proposed cleaning rivers and reopening safe public swimming.