The Watergate contraption is the illustration of computation in its simplest form. The construction is a binary full adder, but the intention is to comprehend how computing can be interactive and visible. The techniques expressed in the Watergate Project could be scaled up to represent how utilities and infrastructure could be reimagined as a computing mechanism and public art display. Computers and infrastructure are similar because the information systems are hidden behind screens or in boxes and the life giving systems are hidden under streets or in walls. The act of deconstructing these systems to occupy public space would provide an experience where computing would become intuitive and appreciated. Large scale construction projects and high water table in Berlin require infrastructure to be temporarily located above ground where water flows in large steel pipes share the public space with the flows of transportation. What would a world look like if the flows of information, infrastructure, and transportation all shared public space and computation was as intuitive as redirecting the flow of water to compute binary addition?
