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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 on the forecasting phenomenon known as the concept car. |
- | Theun Karelse | + | |
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+ | ====Outline: | ||
+ | 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 in our environment is human-centered to the point of ignoring the needs of non-human life, and in many ways even our own. That’s a choice even if it is made unwittingly. Now the Earth' | ||
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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? | ||
+ | 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 concept cars. It is not so much the car as the environment it is set in. The [[https:// | ||
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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 of the landscape in the way organisms are. Rewilding technology.\\ | ||
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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 | ||
+ | * 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:// | ||
- | Topic: Designing a concept car as a case-study to expand upon the line of thought emerging from the Machine Wilderness programme. | ||