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==== Concept Car Notes ==== | ==== Concept Car Notes ==== | ||
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- | **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. | **Topic**: An in depth exploration of how machines relate to landscapes. A prototyping experiment centered on the forecasting phenomenon known as the concept car. | ||
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====Outline: | ====Outline: | ||
- | A car - like an organism | + | 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 | ||
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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 | ||
+ | We are interested in what a concept car and the design process would look like when it is designed as an expression | ||
- | 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. And because of the rather charming history of [[http:// | ||
- | ====Starting ideas:==== | + | ====Older notes:==== |
Applying phenology to product design: //from efficiency towards grace// | 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:// | ||
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* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
- | on concept cars: | ||
- | * [[https:// | ||
- | * BMW [[http:// | ||