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Proposals which would see electricity generated for the city using pieces of urban art have been drawn up.

The designs, which include a water turbine that generates rainbows and a huge dandelion, have been created for the Landscape Art Generator Initiative. They will be going on display for public viewing at the Lighthouse in Glasgow next month.

The three designs aim to create pieces of urban art that also generate electricity.

One design put forward is called the Dundas Dandelions and is intended to be placed at Dundas Hill overlooking the city and adjacent to the motorway.

It uses wind turbine technologies to create a seed-shaped structure.

Flexible carbon fibre wind stalks making up the dandelion contain piezoelectric discs which generate electric charges as they sway and distort in strong winds.

The designers also propose lighting the dandelion at night to add to its appeal a piece of urban art.

The Dundas Dandelions design was drawn up by a team comprised of Stallan Brand Architectural Design, Pidgin Perfect, Glasgow Science Festival, University Glasgow, M-Rad Architects (Matthew Rosenberg), Nich Smith Lighting, and Alan Blair Design and Fabrication.

A second urban art proposal is called Watergaw and uses water turbine technology to generate electricity, heat, and create rainbows.

Watergaw is an old Scottish word meaning patch of rainbow.

The water turbine will be installed into the inflow pipe of the Monkland Canal where it enters the Pinkston basin.

Every time 1000 kWh of energy is produced a rainbow, or watergaw, will appear.

There will also be quiet revolution wind turbines installed on the site.

The Watergaw design was created by a team comprised of ERZ Studio (Rolf Roscher, Felicity Steers, Murray McKeller, Euan Maharg, Chris Swan, David Hammett, and Aidan Cifelli), Alec Finlay, and Riccardo Mariano.

The third design created as part of this initiative is the Wind Forrest.

This is also planned for the top of Dundas Hill and will feature 100 bladeless wind turbines.

In between the wind turbines designers hope to create a ‘boreal’ forest complete with boulders.

The Wind Forrest was drawn up by Peter Foster Richardson (ZM Architecture), Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion (Dalziel + Scullion), Ian Nicoll (Qmulus Ltd.), and Peter Yeadon (Yeadon Space Agency).

One of the three designs will be chosen by the Canal Regeneration Partnership to be developed.

An exhibition of the project featuring all three designs will be at The Lighthouse in Glasgow from June 9 until July 29.

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