Prototyping

Julia Zimmermann

Open Source SoftwareIoT HardwareWeb TechnologiesGenerative AI

Interactive installations, web applications and hardware experiments. The focus is on developing customised interfaces with ESP32, Raspberry Pi and web technologies.

Private Projects

PoeTree

PoeTree is a tiny super rapid prototype at a 2-hours-workshop that gives city trees a face and a voice using generative AI. It tells their story in an emotional way to raise awareness about city trees as a crucial part of the city's infrastructure. For image generation, I used DALL-E (OpenAI), and for the poem, I used ChatGPT (OpenAI).

GitHub Pages, Generative AI

Interactive Map for Tree Waterings

This projects plots of all waterings in the Gieß den Kiez app in-between May 2020 and end of September 2021 on an interactive map. Each point represents one watered tree whereby the sum of the watering amount is shown grouped by one unique tree.

D3JS, Vanilla HTML

Funded Research

Concept and Developmentongoing

(Early) Talking Treebot

2024
Kiezlabor Berlin / CityLAB Berlin
Product Ownercompleted

ki.portrait

2023
CityLAB Berlin
Project Leadcompleted

Quantified Trees

2021-2022
Technologiestiftung Berlin
Product Ownercompleted

Stadtpuls

2022
CityLAB Berlin
Product Ownerongoing

Gieß den Kiez

2020
CityLAB Berlin