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==== Concept Car Notes ==== | ==== Concept Car Notes ==== | ||
- | **Working title**: Big Mammoth? (as pun on Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog) | + | **Topic**: An in depth exploration of how machines relate to landscapes. A prototyping experiment centered |
- | Theun Karelse - June, Juli 2016 | + | |
- | **Topic**: Designing a concept car as a case-study to expand upon the line of thought emerging from the Machine Wilderness programme. | ||
- | **Outline**: An in depth exploration | + | ====Outline:==== |
- | A thought experiment centered around | + | Machines and human technology have been part of our environment for a very long time, but we’ve never really designed them for that complexity. The overwhelming majority of human technologies and infrastructure |
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+ | In a programme called Machine Wilderness we’ve been prototyping ecological robotic systems to | ||
+ | be fully immersed in biodiverse ecosystems. How do you design | ||
+ | In this proposal we suggest taking an iconic machine that is in our environment | ||
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+ | One thing stands out when you do a visual survey of recent concept cars. It is not so much the car as the environment it is set in. The [[http:// | ||
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+ | We propose to start the design for a radically different | ||
+ | We are interested in what a concept car and the design process would look like when it is designed as an expression of the landscape | ||
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+ | ====Older notes: | ||
+ | Applying phenology to product design: //from efficiency towards grace// | ||
+ | * elephant phenology: 80km/day radius, 200kg/day foraging, [[https:// | ||
+ | * complex life history? infant (growth) and mature (dispersal) states? | ||
+ | * wheels are history, legs are the future? | ||
+ | * cars need highways, elephants create savannah corridors: EU highway map becomes map of corridors? | ||
+ | * techno[[https:// | ||
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+ | Extending communication / navigation from systems to organisms / landscapes: //towards a rich spectrum of biological/ | ||
+ | * elephant low frequency communication? | ||
+ | * interpretation of signalling by species in the landscape? | ||
+ | * ecologically and seasonally informed navigation using data from environmental data portals? ([[http:// | ||
+ | * from smart tech, towards wise tech. (long term memory?) | ||
+ | * from quantitative navigation towards qualitative navigation? (from GPS to songlines) | ||
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+ | Embedded energy cycles: //towards local energy regimes// | ||
+ | * elephant grazing: 200 kg/day plant matter, inefficiently digested; excrement is a nutrient source for others, seeds still intact.. | ||
+ | * trophic interactions and ecological energetics (harvesting / feeding the landscape) | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
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+ | Embedded material cycles: | ||
+ | * local material sources | ||
+ | * material lifecycles | ||
+ | * epimechanic life? | ||
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+ | Phenotype: | ||
+ | * 4 legged | ||
+ | * carrying capacity | ||
+ | * tusks | ||
+ | * trunk | ||
+ | * large stomach | ||
+ | * pressure elephant' | ||
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+ | ====Notes: | ||
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+ | on elephants in Europe: | ||
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+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
- | A car - like an organism - is an expression of its habitat. When making a visual survey of concept-car-art it is striking to see how they populate asphalt desert landscapes. Perhaps unwittingly these are statements about the relationship between cars and their environment. This relationship is studied by ecologists, poets and artists. This prototype therefore starts from a transdisciplinary approach, not in the context of a desert, but a biodiverse European landscape and within a longterm view of interacting populations surfing collectively on the geological and environmental currents that carry them. | ||
- | As a starting point I propose looking at former mega-fauna of the European continent, whose ecological niches may be vacant. The Mammoth might be an interesting model-organism because of its carrying capacity and range. |