The World in a Shell

http://www.v2.nl/events/world-in-a-shell

Art container begins world tour in Rotterdam: traveling artist Hans Kalliwoda will camp out in a container on the property of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam’s Museumpark.

Of all the shipping containers that will pass through Rotterdam this year, artist Hans Kalliwoda’s The World in a Shell will undoubtedly be the most striking. From March 25 through April 18, the traveling artist will camp out in a container on the property of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. But “container” isn’t really the right word – The World in a Shell is a high-tech mobile house that can be converted into a museum, movie theatre or laboratory. In the next five years, the container will carry Hans Kalliwoda to 11 UNESCO world heritage sites scattered across all the continents.

For five years, Hans Kalliwoda and Delft University of Technology worked on the technical development of the shell-shaped container, in which he will have to survive in climates ranging from polar to tropical. Sustainability is a central concern. The World in a Shellgenerates its own electricity, recycles water, and is generally as self-sufficient as possible. But in the age of globalization, sustainability is also a social and cultural issue. On his around-the-world trip, Hans Kalliwoda will organize cultural activities for and by local populations. He will take the results away with him in the container, amassing an ever-growing worldwide exhibition that will bring different peoples into contact with each other.

The World in a Shell will premiere in Rotterdam, thereby starting its journey. Since art, technology and architecture come together In the container, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media are joining forces to organize a number of activities in and around the container. There will be workshops and a seminar on sustainability in art, architecture and science on April 1 at V2_. Follow Hans Kalliwoda's journey at http://www.worldinashell.net, or drop by The World in a Shell!

Because, technology and architecture coincide in The World in a Shell, the NAi and V2_ are joining forces to organize a number of activities in and around the container:

Official Opening: The World in a Shell

March 27 | 17:00 | NAi Museumpark 25, Rotterdam

Seminar: Art-Architecture-Science Collaboration in Sustainability

With Ute Meta Bauer, Robert Zwijnenberg, Han Brezet and Hans Kalliwoda

April 1 | 19:30 | Admission: € 7,50 | V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam | Reservation required

Workshop: The Power of Logic Versus the Logic of Power

With Ion Sorvin (N55) and Anne Romme

April 2 | 10:00–18:00 | Admission: € 20,00 (€ 15,00 in combination with the Seminar) | Reservation required

Urban Adventure: A Walk in the Invisible City

With Petr Kazil and Wilfried Houjebek

April 9 | 16:00–18:00 | Admission: € 5,00 | Reservation required

For all reservations please contact Joris van Ballegooijen

The World in a Shell is made possible with the support of: 

Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, SNS Reaal Fonds, Stichting Doen, UNESCO.

Partners:

TU Delft, NAi, Blindpainters

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

Open_Sailing at Mission Future Global Summit 2009, Linz Austria

2009/09/06 Linz : Cesar Harada representing Open_Sailing (http://opensailing.net) at Mission Future Global Summit, 11:00-12:00 The Future of Technology
missionfuture.trendpool.com/?p=5943
Photo by Stephanie Werner.

With
Hide Ogawa // Creator & Artist, Ars Electronica Futurelab; DENTSU Inc
Constantin Gonzalez-Schmitz // Ambassador Technical Systems, Sun Microsystems
Horst Hörtner (tbc) // Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab
Amanda Parkes // MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tangible Media Group
Hiroshi Ishii // MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tangible Media Group

opensailing.net

Open_Sailing at the Art & Architecture Association

http://artandarchitecture.co.uk/photo/aa-event-jul09-nomadic

Information

Cesar Harada / Hiromi Ozaki / Ruairi Glynn

Monday 06th Jul 2009

6:30pm for 7:00pm

The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street

London, EC1M 6EJ.

Nearest Tube: Farringdon

Entrance: £6 non-members - £4 members/Students - £2 Student Members

Synopsis

Open_Sailing is an alternative vision of life at sea: pioneering innovative architecture, navigation and sea farming techniques to create a life that’s comfortable, sustainable and safe. This interdisciplinary team are developing a floating architecture: a laboratory for techno-social experiments that evolves like a living organism. Gradually, this project is building towards a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Azores to Brazil; currents and drift will carry this nomadic structure on its way.

Cesar Harada studied Applied Arts at Ecole Boulle; animation at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris; and industrial design at the ENSCI Les Ateliers Saint-Sabin. He is author of HARADA and Open_Architecture (RCA publication.) and taught at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Versailles.

Hiromi Ozaki is a programmer and artist. A Maths and Computers graduate of Imperial College, As Sputniko! Hiromi also creates music, performances and films which humorously explore quirky ways in which we engage with technology. Hiromi is the creator and developer of hi-ve, a swarm intelligence-inspired operating system.

Cesar and Hiromi are both researchers in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art collaborating on Open_Sailing. (www.opensailing.net)

Ruairi Glynn is director of the blog www.interactivearchitecture.org

Open_Sailing in EL PAIS (spanish) 2009 12 12

www.elpais.com/articulo/Tendencias/Buscarse/vida/alta/mar...
www.elpais.com/fotografia/Tendencias/Estacion/internacion...



Buscarse la vida en alta mar
El artista Cesar Harada propone un sistema de viviendas flotantes para mudarse a aguas internacionales | ROBERTA BOSCO - Barcelona - 12/12/2009

"La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo". La frase es del ingeniero informático Alan Kay, pero Cesar Harada ha decidido convertirla en su lema e inventar su futuro en alta mar. Harada (Bayona, Francia, 1983) es artista, hijo del escultor japonés Tetsuo Harada y de madre francesa. Vive entre Londres y París, por el momento. Porque, mientras la mayoría de los mortales planea trasladarse al campo o la playa, Harada quiere irse a vivir en aguas internacionales de los océanos.
Por eso ha puesto en marcha Open Sailing (www.opensailing.net). Este proyecto interdisciplinar, abierto y colaborativo explora las posibilidades de la arquitectura marina. "La idea es desarrollar y construir un sistema de viviendas flotantes, que permitan la vida humana de forma totalmente autónoma, sostenible y respetuosa, pero también divertida y agradable" explica Harada.

Este peculiar arquitecto -acompañado por dos colaboradores, Carla Castaño (de Barcelona) y Ollie Palmer (de Londres)- ha presentado en Barcelona Open Sailing, en el marco del encuentro Now solar sobre tecnologías y energías sostenibles, que ha organizado un workshop en el Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) en colaboración con la Fundación Terra.

Tras intentar construir un prototipo de vivienda pensado para ocho personas, para evitar los obstáculos burocráticos, Harada ha reducido las dimensiones. Y ahora trabaja en algo parecido a una Estación Internacional Oceánica, más pequeña, pero con los módulos indispensables para vivir, producir energía, cultivar vegetales en jardines flotantes abonados con los desechos orgánicos y criar (o más bien atraer) los peces lanzando plancton en el agua. "Podemos hacer converger los rayos del sol en un determinado perímetro del mar para calentar el agua y crear un hábitat más favorable a los peces", indica Harada.
La Estación Oceánica, prevista para el próximo verano, se basa en una arquitectura instintiva que reacciona como un animal. "Cuando la situación es favorable los módulos se alejan del elemento central, si es peligrosa se reagrupan", explica Harada. Para su diseño se ha inspirado en una medusa con largos tentáculos y una especie de vela que se hincha cuando quiere desplazarse. Y sus viviendas flotantes son un híbrido entre un barco y una plataforma petrolífera (pero mucho más bonitas) que se desplazan gracias al viento y las corrientes. En el proyecto trabajan 40 personas, incluidos científicos.
El proyecto se inició como una estrategia de supervivencia, a partir de la recopilación de un mapa de los miedos en el que todos pueden participar a través de (www.hi-ve.net) con la idea de convertir estos miedos en una fuerza de energía positiva. "Los océanos son los lugares más seguros del planeta", concluye Harada.

Original .pdf download : international-ocean-station.org/download/20091212el-pais_...
Original .txt download : international-ocean-station.org/download/20091212el-pais_...

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Open_Sailing_01 @ RCA SHOW 2009

Ole !
It is indeed too late to advertise about it, but let's do it anyway : Open_Sailing was exhited at the Royal College of Art final show 2009, and it was a great success. We met so many interesting people! We got a nice website for our show.



The setup was simple, thanks to Ilona, Hiromi and Colet for your precious help.



And if you haven't seen it yet : the superb model made by Oliver Goodhall ! [How it was made]



The show was busy, it was so good !

Open_Sailing_01 was also nominated for the Helen Hamlyn Design Award and finalist ! Capture

Open_Sailing_01 was also selected to represent the college as one of the most promising sustainable project : Sustainable design at the Royal College of Art. Capture 1 | 2

All these great pictures taken by Hayeon Yoo, THANK YOU ! ( www.flickr.com/photos/hayeon/ )

Royal caribbean commercial 2008 castellano

Royal caribbean commercial 2008 castellano

O_S at the V2_ Test_Lab: What Crisis?!

We have been invited to present Open_Sailing, the 9th July 2009, at the V2_ the institute for unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherland, it is very very exciting, powerpoint forbidden ! >>



http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-what-crisis

the event is going to be streamed and archived here ! http://live.v2.nl/

Download the flyer : .pdf 5.7 mb

see on vimeo | download the .mov high-quality (302mb) | WMV medium (182mb) |

In this edition of Test_Lab, V2_ will create its own special think tank for young artists to address issues of a world in crisis with artistic reflection and creative vision, laying out a young generation’s artistic view on our current conditions and ways of living.

Featuring: David Hahlbrock (DE) Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cesar Harada (FR/JP), Dot Mancando (TH),Thomas Thwaites (UK) Royal College of Art, Sander Veenhof (NL) Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Opening: Mieke Gerritzen
Respondent: Koert van Mensvoort

Performance: TokTek vs VJ MNK

Newspaper headlines report that our world is in crisis, but while the front page illustrates how bad the global situation is, a few pages down, positive tongues claim that the current global crisis provides us with unprecedented opportunities for creative technological innovation, social transformation, revisions of financial systems, environmental change, and entrepreneurship. But did we really need this crisis to generate these opportunities?! We think not. Our world is continuously in crisis, and therefore constantly requires critical reflection and rethinking. However, as the world’s future is said to be in the hands of the truly creative and critical thinkers, we are more than willing to soothe away any worries about the crisis by revealing a whole new generation of artists’ and designers’ views on the current state of affairs.

While elsewhere the crisis is being tackled by young scientists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, through initiatives such as think tanks and campaigns, in this edition of Test_Lab, V2_ will create its own special think tank for young artists to address issues of a world in crisis with artistic reflection and creative vision. In order to do so, V2_ has made a selection of several outstanding graduation projects from this past academic year, that were proposed for the program by teachers and coordinators from various European art and design academies. The demonstrated works will lay out a young generation’s artistic view on our current conditions and ways of living: Featuring a truly objective coin-flipper, a revolutionary strategy for urban gardening, the first ever open source international ocean station, toast from a toaster made from scratch, and an interactively controlled greenhouse for growing graduation bouquets.

As is custom to Test_Lab, the audience is invited to assess these young artists’ reflections by testing the demonstrated artworks and designs themselves. So prepare for an evening of trying thought provoking electronic art and design that deals with urgent (and less urgent) aspects of a world in crisis. If after this any worries about the crises should remain, then TokTek vs. VJ MNK will soothe your cares away by performing live at Test_Lab: What Crisis?!

This event will be streamed live at http://www.v2.nl

External Links:

Academies:

Royal College of Art, London

Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Projects:

Cesar Harada - Open_Sailing

David Hahlbrock - TransitGarden2

Dot Mancando - Coinflipper/The Buttons

Sander Veenhof - Publicity Plant

Thomas Thwaites - The Toaster project

UN climate talks don't focus enough on oceans

http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/un-climate-talks-dont-focus-enough-on-oceans.shtml?14242

Monday, 8 June, 2009

Listen to this : http://worldradio.ch/wrs/bm~doc/intv-ocean-day-080609.mp3

The high-profile climate change talks in Copenhagen at the end of the year don’t focus enough on the world’s oceans, according to the Swiss-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature, who made the announcement for World Ocean Day, Monday. The IUCN is pushing for a worldwide system of protecting the oceans. Reporter Alex Helmick talks to Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN’s Global Marine Program. He started off by asking if Lundin was disappointed by the agenda from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Copenhagen.



Alex Helmick, World Radio Switzerland. Thanks to Annie Harada for letting us know about this article.