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**Working title**: Big Mammoth? (as pun on Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog) | **Working title**: Big Mammoth? (as pun on Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog) | ||
- | Theun Karelse - June, Juli 2016 | ||
- | **Topic**: | + | **Topic**: |
- | **Outline**: An in depth exploration of machine wilderness design strategies and issues. | + | **Outcome**: a printed publication |
- | A thought experiment centered around | + | |
- | 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 | + | ====Outline: |
+ | 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 often they show machines populating | ||
- | 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. | + | 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. |
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- | **Outcome**: | + | |
- | ===Starting ideas:=== | + | ====Starting ideas:==== |
- | Applying phenology to product design: from efficiency towards grace | + | Applying phenology to product design: |
* elephant phenology: 80km/day radius, 200kg/day foraging, [[https:// | * elephant phenology: 80km/day radius, 200kg/day foraging, [[https:// | ||
* complex life history? infant (growth) and mature (dispersal) states? | * complex life history? infant (growth) and mature (dispersal) states? | ||
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* techno[[https:// | * techno[[https:// | ||
- | Extending communication / navigation from systems to organisms / landscapes: towards a rich spectrum of biological/ | + | Extending communication / navigation from systems to organisms / landscapes: |
* elephant low frequency communication? | * elephant low frequency communication? | ||
* interpretation of signalling by species in the landscape? | * interpretation of signalling by species in the landscape? | ||
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* from quantitative navigation towards qualitative navigation? (from GPS to songlines) | * from quantitative navigation towards qualitative navigation? (from GPS to songlines) | ||
- | Embedded energy cycles: towards local energy regimes | + | Embedded energy cycles: |
* elephant grazing: 200 kg/day plant matter, inefficiently digested; excrement is a nutrient source for others, seeds still intact.. | * 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) | * trophic interactions and ecological energetics (harvesting / feeding the landscape) | ||
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* large stomach | * large stomach | ||
* pressure elephant' | * pressure elephant' | ||
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+ | ====Notes: | ||
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+ | on elephants in Europe: | ||
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+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
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+ | on concept cars: | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * BMW [[http:// | ||