TED 2010 fellowship, Cesar Harada

2009/12/14 : It is now official and public :
Open_Sailing will be present at TED 2010 Long Beach!
Following is the Press release
http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/394

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TED ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF NEXT 25 TED FELLOWSHIPS

Newest TED Fellows to participate in the prestigious TED2010 Conference in Long Beach, CA

NEW YORK, December 14, 2009 — Organizers of the TED Conference announced today the 25 TED Fellows who will participate in TED2010, TED’s annual conference in Long Beach, CA, February 9 – 13, 2010. The TED2010 Fellows join the TED community as the most recent additions to the TED Fellows program, joining the TED, TEDGlobal and TEDIndia Fellows from 2009.

The TED2010 Fellows reflect both geographic and discipline diversity. From Israel to Brazil to Malaysia, these innovators excel in the technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and nonprofit worlds. The group also includes filmmakers, engineers, artists, scientists and musicians.

“We are thrilled to embark upon our second year of the TED Fellows program with these 25 individuals. They represent a spectacular concentration of cross-disciplinary talent in the arts and sciences, entrepreneurship and engineering, education and new journalism. We look forward to their contributions to the TED community and the amazing collaborations that are sure to occur among them," said Tom Rielly, TED Fellows director.

In addition to participating as full members of the TED2010 conference audience, each TED Fellow will participate in a two-day pre-conference, where they will receive world-class communication training, deliver a short TEDTalk, and collaborate with their peers, among other benefits. The Fellows will also participate in the TED community throughout the next year, by telling their ongoing stories on the TED Fellows blog, being featured in the online Fellows directory and participating in a private social network.

The TED Fellows program seeks individuals of age 21-40 (though anyone over age 18 is eligible) who demonstrate remarkable achievement in their field of endeavor. The program focuses on candidates from five regions: Asia/Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. The TED Fellows program is made possible by the visionary support of the Bezos family, Sherpalo Ventures, the Harnisch Foundation, the Case Foundation, private donors and Nokia.

Meet the TED2010 Fellows:

Mubarak Abdullahi (Nigeria/UK) – Aircraft engineer who, at 24, built a homemade helicopter out of old car and bike parts

Milena Boniolo (Brazil) – Chemist and PhD student at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, who is developing methods to detect emerging contaminants in the environment

Premesh Chandran (Malaysia) – Co-founder and CEO of Malaysiakini.com, an independent Malaysian news website

Perry Chen (US) – Co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter.com, a web platform offering people a new way to fund their creative ideas and endeavors

Anita Doron (Ukraine/Israel/Canada) – Surrealist filmmaker and documentarian

Ndubuisi Ekekwe (Nigeria/US) – Engineer, inventor, author and founder of the African Institution of Technology, an organization seeking to develop microelectronics in Africa

Saeed Taji Farouky (UK/Palestine) – Documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer focusing on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

Jessica Green (US) – Professor at the University of Oregon’s Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, whose research focuses on microbial diversity

Benjamin Gulak (Canada/US) – Inventor of the Uno, a “green” electric street bike, and founder of BPG Motors

Robert Gupta (US) – Violinist and youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic whose area of study also included neurobiology

Cesar Harada (Japan/France/UK) – Coordinator of the Open_Sailing project, working to develop open-source technologies to intelligently inhabit the oceans

Susie Ibarra (US/Philippines) – Composer, percussionist and co-founder of Song of the Bird King, a production company using music and film to preserve indigenous culture and ecology

Jennifer Indovina (US) – Founder of Tenrehte Technologies, a semiconductor company developing wireless smart-grid applications

Mitchell Joachim (US/Canada) – Architect and co-founder of Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, non-profit design groups that promote ecological design in cities

Raffael Lomas (Israel) – Sculptor and teacher of creative visual workshops for the blind

Kate Nichols (US) – Artist-in-residence at the Alivisatos Lab who synthesizes nanoparticles that exhibit structural color and incorporates them into macroscale art pieces

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan/Canada) – Documentary filmmaker and founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, an educational institution and heritage center established to preserve Pakistan's history.

Sarah Jane Pell (Australia) – Artist-researcher, diver and founder of Aquabatics Research Team initiative (ARTi)

Manu Prakash (India/US) – Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows, physicist and inventor pursuing research in the field of physical biology

Kellee Santiago (US) – President and co-founder of thatgamecompany, a video game company working to create games that communicate unique emotional experiences

Durreen Shahnaz (Bangladesh/Singapore/US) – Founder and Chairperson of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a social stock exchange for Social Enterprises to raise growth capital

Gavin Sheppard (Canada) – Founder of I.C. Visions and co-founder of The Remix Project, a youth program acting as an arts and cultural incubator in Toronto, Canada

Hugo Van Vuuren (South Africa/US) – Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Fellow at The Laboratory at Harvard, co-founder of Lebone – a social enterprise working on off-grid technologies

Angelo Vermeulen (Belgium) – Biologist, filmmaker, and visual artist creating large-scale collaborative art installations

Daniel Zoughbie (US) – Founder and CEO of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization working to prevent and manage diseases in the developing world using low-cost behavioral interventions

Details on each Fellow and the program are available at www.ted.com/fellows. To support the program, or to receive more information, please contact Logan McClure at +1 212.346.9333 or via email at fellows@ted.com. Follow the TED Fellows blog at http://tedfellows.posterous.com.

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where three exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action, and TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world. Follow TED on Twitter, twitter.com/tedtalks, or on Facebook, www.facebook.com/TED

TED2010, “What the World Needs Now,” will be held Feb. 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, along with TEDActive, a simulcast conference of TED2010, in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2010, “And Now the Good News,” will be held July 13-16, 2010, in Oxford, UK

Logan McClure
Program Officer, TED Fellows
TED Conferences

Open Call for projects - Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea

FB page : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150644613908&index=1

Official W : http://capsulaexpeditions.com/
Applications : www.capsula.org.es
Conditions : http://00capsula00.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/open-call-for-projects-expedition-to-the-baltic-sea/

The Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad region of Russia ©Petr Antonov

The Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea invites artists to contemplate the natural phenomena and their own relationship with the changing sea. Researchers and other cultural agents are encouraged to join the expeditions, straddling the borderline between art and science.

Artists who live in Finland or Estonia, irrespective of their nationality, can take part in this open call. Also Finnish and Estonian artists living abroad may participate.

The project is intended to spur new works of art and inspire the public to take part in different creative processes. Artists decide, whether the general state of the sea is the phenomenon studied, or one of it´s numerous and singular phenomena and ecosystems will be under their exploration.

One of the key aspects of the marine expeditions is to travel slow, using methods of transport that only moderately burden the environment. A canoe, a hot air balloon, a jolly-boat, a marine research vessel or a rowboat are just some possible means of seafaring, used by artistic sea explorers.

Project proposals will be accepted until 21 December 2009. The project will be part of Turku’s programme for the European Capital of Culture year in 2011. Capsula and Bioart Society Finland are responsible for the project.

More information and the instructions for the application:

www.capsula.org.es

More information about the 1st Curated Expedition to the Total Solar Eclipse:http://capsulaexpeditions.com

>> So, shall we do it?
>> Are we going to be ready on time?

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An interesting article about fisheries in the Baltic sea.

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Great article about the Baltic sea and its actual condition (below).

http://www.helcom.fi/environment2/nature/en_GB/nature/


The Baltic Sea is a small sea on a global scale, but as one of the world's largest bodies of brackish water it is ecologically unique. Due to its special geographical, climatological, and oceanographic characteristics, the Baltic Sea is highly sensitive to the environmental impacts of human activities in its sea area or in its catchment area, which is home to over 85 million people.

What makes the Baltic so sensitive?

An almost enclosed sea

The Baltic Sea is only connected to the world’s oceans by the narrow and shallow waters of the Sound and the Belt Sea. This limits the exchange of water with the North Sea, and means that the same water remains in the Baltic for up to 30 years – along with all the organic and inorganic matter it contains.

The Baltic Sea consists of a series of sub-basins, which are mostly separated by shallow sills. These basins each have their own water exchange characteristics.

Runoff enters the shallow Baltic Sea from a large catchment area

At an average depth of just 53 metres, the Baltic Sea is much shallower than most of the world’s seas. It contains 21,547 km³ of water and every year rivers bring about 2% of this volume of water into the sea as runoff. The Baltic Sea’s catchment area is almost four times larger than the sea itself.

Brackish water

The brackish water of the Baltic Sea is a mixture of sea water from the North Sea and fresh water from rivers and rainfall. Thesalinity of its surface waters varies from around 20 psu (≈parts per thousand) in the Kattegat to 1–2 psu in the northernmost Bothnian Bay and the easternmost Gulf of Finland, compared to 35 psu in the open oceans.

A stratified sea

Salinity levels also vary with depth, increasing from the surface down to the seafloor. Saltier water flowing in through the Sound and the Belt Sea does not mix easily with the less dense water already in the Baltic, and tends to sink down into deeper basins. At the same time, the less saline surface water flows out of the Baltic. The boundary between these two water masses, known as thehalocline, consists of a layer of water where salinity levels change rapidly. In the Baltic Proper and Gulf of Finland, for instance, the halocline lies at a depth of around 60–80 m. Like a lid, the halocline limits the vertical mixing of water. This means that the oxygen content of the deep basins may decline due to biological and chemical oxygen consumption. The Baltic Proper is replenished by oxygen-rich saltwater flowing in from the North Sea along the sea floor.

The Gulf of Bothnia, separated by a shallow sill from the Baltic proper, has low bottom water salinity and, hence, a very weak or absent halocline. In summer a thermocline – a distinct layer of water where the temperature changes rapidly – divides surface waters into two layers: a wind-mixed surface layer down to a depth of 10–25 m, and a deeper, denser and colder layer extending down to the sea-bed or the halocline. Such temperature stratification ends as surface waters cool in the autumn.

Limited biodiversity

Compared to other aquatic ecosystems, only relatively few animal and plant species live in the brackish ecosystems of the Baltic Sea – although this limited biodiversity does include a unique mix of marine and freshwater species adapted to the brackish conditions, as well as a few true brackishwater species. Where salinity levels are low, in the Baltic’s northern and eastern waters, fewer marine species can thrive, and marine habitats are dominated by freshwater species, especially in estuaries and coastal waters.

Figure 1. Specific features and processes which make the Baltic Sea sensitive (green - natural characteristics, white - human impacts, yellow - harmful effects)

Read more about Baltic facts and figure

Preparing Transmediale 2010 Application

Berlin in the summer is lovely.
In this set you can the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Weissensee (fine art school of Weissensee) where we might get busy toward the Transmediale 2010!
Get ready! ... More soon.

Advanced Architecture

< Ollie Palmer >

http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/
We should be entering this contest.

Deadline is monday September 28th 2009

CAN WE DESIGN BUILDINGS WITH THE PRECISION OF A CHIP AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF A NETWORK?

CAN IMPROVISATION BE MORE SELF-SUFFICIENT THAN TOTAL PLANNING?

HOW CAN WE RE-NATURALIZE OUR CITIES?

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE COMPLEX HOUSES CONSTRUCTED WITH THE SAME PRECISION AS A CAR?

CAN OUR CITIES BE DIRECTLY DESIGNED AND TRANSFORMED BY THEIR INHABITANTS?

HOW CAN WE FOCUS OUR SKILLS AND RESOURCES ON CONSTRUCTING SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS?

WHAT ARE THE KEY CONCEPTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HABITAT OF THE 21ST CENTURY?

HOW CAN WE INSERT SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS INTO HISTORIC URBAN FABRICS?

HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE FULLY ENERGY-EFFICIENT CITIES?

We can do it, reachable.

Open_Sailing wins the Sustainable Art Award

Last night at an award ceremony in Bash! studios in Shoreditch, the Open_Sailing Crew proudly accepted the Sustainable Art Award 2009. Cesar Harada, Hiromi Ozaki, Nasser Moustakim and Ollie Palmer were at the event and received the prize, a trophy made from recycled materials.
They also left with a bottle of organic apple juice, promising not to drink it all at once.

Second prize was won by Fran Crowe, and third by Circus Kinetica. See the Flickr set for more pictures.
Thankyou to Bash! for the award!

The awards, and corresponding Respond! exhibition are an initiative co-founded by the Arts and Ecology centre at The Royal Society of The Arts and BASH Creations. Open_Sailing is displaying a DVD in the exhibition for the next two weeks. www.sustainableartawards.com

Sustainable Art Awards

YEAH !!!!
We got selected to compete for another award !

Congratulations!
I am very happy to inform you that your work has been selected to be exhibited as part of the Sustainable Art Awards.
Your pieces must be transported to our studios by Friday 12th of June 2009.

Location: BASH Studios, 65 - 71 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4PJ.

Just a few reminders:
- The set up will take place Saturday 13th of June at 11AM. Volunteers will be attending to set up your work if you can not attend.
- On the 16th of June we will host a opening party (invite enclosed) for the Sustainable Art Awards.
- The time and date of the exposition is from the 17th to the 28th of June.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate in contacting me.

All the best,
Gina Whitehead
Sustainable Art Awards coordinator
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BASH STUDIO 65-71 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4PJ

Bash Creations Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Reg. number: 6061744. Registered office: Lear House, 259 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4TG.

So, I know we already got a lot of work, but we have to organise ourselves to get this event done nicely.

As you know the RCA show is our priority, thousands and thousands of visitors are expected there, and the dates are overlapping :
- Sustainable awards : 17th to 28th of June
- RCA Show : 25th of June to 5 of July
So, some of the Bash exhibitions might get transfered during the exhibition.

Just as a reminder : we have the Area 10 event the 13th of June, we are showing the Open_Sailing_01 assembled for the first time.
Good news = More work ! What shall we show?

Navigation

We are working to make sure our semi-autonomous navigation system will be better than those used on expensive nuclear submarines (and a lot cheaper!)

Preparing the ARS Electronica [NEXT IDEA], Linz Austria

Preparing the installation of the Open_Sailing [THE NEXT IDEA] prix at the ARS Electronica 2009.
Opening the 3rd of september, open till the 9th in Linz, Austria, check the program, come see our talk, our model.