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==== Machine Ecology Notes ==== | ==== Machine Ecology Notes ==== | ||
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- | === Meeting June 3rd === | ||
- | We started with the **central aims** of the project, what was the motivation to set it up; | ||
- | * To explore if through designing a mechanical organism as an active participant in a habitat, you could study natural systems. | ||
- | * To see if artists and designers can contribute to a shift in the framewhorks within which our technologies are designed. | ||
- | * To explore how technological systems could interact with the subleties and grace of biological systems. | ||
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- | We looked at the ambitions and targets in our proposal. The workshops mentioned in it were described briefly and each participant gave an update on their current ideas about their research subject.\\ | ||
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- | Judith described how she's interested in smells and sound in the landscape. She mentioned work by Bernie Krause on how animals occupy different frequencies and form a densely rich mosaic of sounds. She is interested to learn whether this applies to smells too, and could you map phenomenon like these to form a better understanding of **natural signalling** and the semiosphere. Could a better understanding help us design our technologies to be more tuned to natural signalling. She described also the idea of **' | ||
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- | Ivan is interested to explore ideas about how to build connections between technology and natural systems with experts; How can we find a balance between technology and nature at the **level of energy**? The mechanisms we are looking for often aren't possible yet, but prototyping them shows an ambition. The focus is on **sharing ideas** / brainstorm to bring about a change of perspective. The thought is more important than the technique. Every life form is part of an ongoing experiment called life and all biological and technological creatures share these tiny electrical signals travelling inside them.\\ | ||
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- | Judith: The organisational principle of nature is **flow**. That is the flow of energy or spirit.\\ | ||
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- | Daan: is interested in physical experiments. His Giraffa experiment looked at the potential for robotics in sustainable agriculture: | ||
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- | From this we entered the topic of audience participation: | ||
- | * You cannot make anything advanced in a 1 day workshop | ||
- | * it has to have focus, something to which people can contribute | ||
- | * not too general that is too open, not too strict that interests few people | ||
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- | Alice: The question of how to develop collaborative design can be a focus within our program.\\ | ||
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- | Daan: Maybe we could do Fast Prototyping; | ||
- | Ivan: Maybe look at species and natural forms in the park as design inspirations? | ||
- | Theun: Would be great to combine with all age groups. Maybe we could work with Maria Blaisse on natural materials, and with Kenzo Kusuda on the way animals move? We could invite people like from Wageningen robotics or Robird.\\ | ||
- | Ivan: Spela Petrich is working on plant communities and sensing.\\ | ||
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- | Daan: How to get things focussed?\\ | ||
- | Ivan: We can have an expert meeting and with them get more focus on what we want to experiment with.\\ | ||
- | Alice/ | ||
- | * bring in experts for a discussion -> shift perspectives | ||
- | * build networks and look for opportunities for collaboration | ||
- | * to get feedback or our ideas, centred on key questions each of us wants to explore: | ||
- | * energy | ||
- | * senses | ||
- | * collaborative prototyping | ||
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- | Ivan: we could each propose 3 experts for next meeting.\\ | ||
- | Alice: We also should already look for a venue, because we want this to be in september, so it would be good to have something before the summer holidays, Artis?\\ | ||
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