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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 [[http:// | ||
- | **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 for that complexity? *see portfolio for more* | ||
+ | In this proposal we suggest taking an iconic machine that is in our environment and re-imagine it from the perspective of the environment. There is only one real contender: the car.\\ | ||
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+ | One thing stands out when you do a visual survey of recent | ||
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+ | We propose to start the design for a radically different concept car based on one or two large animals and their ecological role in our landscape: their behavioral signature / phenology. | ||
+ | We are interested in what a concept car and the design process would look like when it is designed as an expression | ||
- | 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. | + | ====Older notes:==== |
- | + | Applying phenology to product design: | |
- | **Outcome**: | + | |
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- | ===Starting ideas:=== | + | |
- | Applying phenology to product design: from efficiency towards grace | + | |
* 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:// | ||
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