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==== Machine Ecology Design Notes ==== | ==== Machine Ecology Design Notes ==== | ||
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+ | Collected notes on design processes in Machine Wilderness. | ||
==== Design Notes Cornwall Workshop ==== | ==== Design Notes Cornwall Workshop ==== | ||
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From the exploration in the morning around the Penryn estuary the image emerges of a creature that extends across the landscape and taps into the communication of tree roots and branches into varied parts of the environment. A creature as an indicator of hidden processes that is less like a body and more like a network.\\ | From the exploration in the morning around the Penryn estuary the image emerges of a creature that extends across the landscape and taps into the communication of tree roots and branches into varied parts of the environment. A creature as an indicator of hidden processes that is less like a body and more like a network.\\ | ||
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From the list of parameters for developing wilderness machines ' | From the list of parameters for developing wilderness machines ' | ||
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- | The experience of walking through the reed beds is discussed; how it enables shifting paces and tracks. When you are small you don't even make a path, but can pass through. Could our creature meander through the reed bed and exchange information? | + | The experience of walking through the reed beds is discussed; how it enables shifting paces and tracks. When you are small you don't even make a path, but can pass through. Could our creature meander through the reed bed and exchange information? |
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- | The team discusses the pros and cons of oven information exchange between creatures. What are the risks to individual members and to the collaborative super-organism they form? Can it be nessisary | + | The team discusses the pros and cons of open information exchange between creatures. What are the risks to individual members and to the collaborative super-organism they form? Can it be necessary |
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- | Could the creatures that form our super-organism differ in functions? Is it cast-based? How does our creature tap into the different modes of communication from the many species in the environment it is tapping into? How do you find a common language. Maybe that is ritual based; ritual behavior remarks time and space. We discuss | + | Could the creatures that form our super-organism differ in functions? Is it cast-based? How does our creature tap into the different modes of communication from the many species in the environment it is tapping into? How do you find a common language. Maybe that is ritual based; ritual behavior remarks time and space. We discuss |
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- | Maybe another model from biology is a combination between Hydra and Plenaria. Our creature could consist of a water filled membrane that has sensors floating in it like organellae | + | The thought emerges that the magical transformation may reflect the seasonal or periodic aggregation of these many creatures as if to form one being. The creatures exchange information with each other and the mud repository; some burrow deep to deposit information and possibly even end their lifecycles, and others dig up the information stored in these former receivers and transmitters of information. The physical form of this magically transformed tree-like, root-like being extending both above and below the ground, might reflect the reeds that inspired our imagination, |
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+ | Maybe another model from biology is a combination between | ||
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+ | The creatures membranous body with its multiple information receptors emerged while considering the issue of how multiple creatures might connect and exchange information with each other. A membranous, semi-fluid body might provide a way for creatures to link up their bodies with each other and allow pieces of recorded information to flow through each others' | ||
=== Amber' | === Amber' | ||
Our machine was called Fucus - as it was heavily inspired by seaweed: bladderwrack [[https:// | Our machine was called Fucus - as it was heavily inspired by seaweed: bladderwrack [[https:// | ||
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The group was very drawn to the beach and the mud - as soon as they were | The group was very drawn to the beach and the mud - as soon as they were |