Incognito Zone is an encrypted waterscape that utilizes an infrastructural framework to produce reprogrammable urban public space. It uses an anonymous data collection system to create a direct relationship between the user and the space they occupy while redefining what it means to be surveilled in a modern public. The project capitalizes on the relationship between user and user, and user and landscape, to create a new typology of public space. Once fueled by the collective.

In order to facilitate spatial reconfiguration, a medium that can be manipulated in needed. Water was this chosen medium for its phase changes and spatial properties as it can be manipulated to distort, blur, block, and reflect images to add to a level of anonymity and unfamiliarty within a space. It allows for a space to become visually anonymous. To facilitate these changes, water is moved throughout the site by a series of pipes and channels. The path of the water is determined by the data encryption of the previous day.

Incognito Zone is intended to challenge the way we view data collection in a modern world, and remove the hyper-personalized nature of surveillance. Can designers exploit data collection instead of having it exploit us?