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The artist Françoise Schein has designed what should be a stunning art work for Millennium Place, which alludes to Coventry's history as a centre for clock-making. The work will consist of a 'clock' based on the time zones of the world, represented by linear LED displays set into the pavement. The LED displays will be arranged radially with about 1500 'lights' making up the twenty-four time zones. They will be slightly raised from the paving so that walking on them will feel like the ridges of sand on a beach after the tide has gone out. Each linear display lights up as the sun rises over the time zone it represents so that by midnight the entire display is illuminated. Then at ten to one in the morning the displays will all switch off so that the Place is in complete darkness for ten minutes, before the first time zone comes on at 1.00 am.

Schein’s concept depicts international time zones in cast aluminium inlaid with LEDs, integrated into the fabric of Millennium Place. Stainless steel discs locate the capital cities of the world and Coventry's 26 sister cities. At the end of each line the indicators show the hour in that time zone; at the end of the meridian lines Greenwich meantime in hours, minutes and seconds is shown on three indicators. LED lines light up from left to right from midnight, and every quarter of an hour the whole clock is illuminated. A control panel indicates the name and location of Coventry’s sister cities. ‘It seemed appropriate to me, given the Millennium and the fact that the time zone system was invented in Britain, to present an idea related to the concept of time. In addition, Coventry has an important history of industrial clock and watchmaking, and a collection of sister cities from around the globe.’ Francoise Schein

Hello to one and all.

Please post your school dates onto this space (2011/2012 calendar) please  - since I became involved in international projects I have been fascinated to find that we do not all have the same holidays (how innocent I was in those days!).

Paul

Hello, Paul and team I was checked the blog and I liked the information posted there. Olympics are really important and I think we could use this topic in our future Comenius project .... Cornelia

Hello again,

Unfortunatly the video is not available in our area so I could't watch the video...I was very unhappy....Cornelia

Will the real Margit Caviezel please stand up?

Hi everyone,

as I can add my thoughts now I'd like to say hello to all of you.

I will add my school-holiday-calendar as soon as possible.

Bye- Margit

Hello my dear

my heart is full of good experiences, my mind of deep thougts.

So, I'm really honoured to have met everybody in Brasov.

Our project will achieve great results, I'm sure.

I'll try to add the website of my school... see youuuu!

Hello,

I have uploaded a link realated to our first visit evaluation. My students evaluated the visit and I tried to resume it...Hope you like it, Cornelia