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

CCCB Open_Sailing taller

Open_Sailing has been invited in Barcelona by the CCCB  for a lecture (below you can see the slideshow) and for a day-long workshop, as a part of the NOW festival and Atopia. 

NOW is a reflection on the present based on the scientific, technological, artistic, social and spiritual transformations that are taking place at the start of the 21st century. It is a process of research, creation and dissemination that aims to bring together different local and international agents involved in the actions that are promoting a change of paradigm in the information and knowledge society and in globalised cultures.

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Lecture
The first day, Cesar Harada presented Open_Sailing on a more historical perspective, explaining how it developed and where it is going, slideshow below.

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Workshop
The second day 27 person participated the Open_Sailing workshop with Cesar Harada, Ruairi Glynn, Ollie Palmer, Carla Colet Castano. It was about dance, sensible linear - branched and complex networks, mapping, tagging, geostrategy, group and decision making, adhocracy, object oriented politics, open architecture, town-planning, renewable energies, sustainable design, hedonism, fun, architecture of play.

Here is the structure of the workshop as a simpler array of instructions :

Dance
1. walk
2. run
stretch
3. walk eyes closed
4. run eyes closed
5. linear network - walk eyes closed
6. linear network - walk eyes closed - somebody takes the lead
7. branched network - walk eyes closed
8. branched network - walk eyes closed - somebody takes the lead
9. complex network - walk eyes closed
10. complex network - walk eyes closed - somebody takes the lead
11. splitting the group is sub-groups

Map
1. cover the floor with a large paper
2. draw YOUR world map


Tag
1. have 2 colours stikers : one "like" color, one "dislike" color
2. tag the map, write words on tags
3. map the whole world


Individual desire
1. think of where you personaly would prefer to live according to your map and tags


Group decision of a location
1. make a decision, as group, of one location, where you all agree to go together


Group decision of activities
1. as a group decide one activity in this new location


Individual involvment
1. as an individual, choose your activity within this group


Craft of the system
1. describe your location, group activity, personal activity, how the system would work (food, energy, political, technology ...)


Design of the system
1. optimize your system


Fabrication of models
1. as a group, fabricate the physical model of what you have been describing


Public presentation and debate
1. present your group work to other groups of works
2. compare, discuss.
3. general debate : what happened? what did you enjoy? what did you not enjoy? what did you learn? what will remain in your memory? How will this workshop affect your future life?

thanks !



Promotional video



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Lab 11: OPEN_MUSIC

By Nick Kaufman

we started this venture, which can also be an open sailing lab. Music that is like a village floating on the water... parts that are free to float around and recombine for mutual prosperity and growth....
music is a very important part of any social project:

About Interdependence Records
Interdependence is an open_source label on the border between the non-profit and private sector, where your wildest dreams are possible. Here's to many tubular dayz! VISION & BYLAWS: Interdependence, like Manchester's Factory Records, is an experiment in human nature. It is a label, we will release records, but it is also a creative incubator for anyone who makes music or dreams of it. As such, we want our artists to grow and expand, and eventually get signed and find a lovely home somewhere. This does not mean that we are a so-called "non-profit", a very confining category at least in America. We are half anarchist and half socialist; we want to be free to create, but we also want to educate and bring up those who grow up in the poorer communities of the world and help give their voices wings. We NEED to make money in order to do this, and we intend to be profitable so our members can live comfortable lives, but we solemnly vow not to amass wealth for its own sake. In the end, we are about the music. Right now we are on the Yes Wave, but we are not afraid to ride future waves into the next millennium and the frontiers of the human evolutionary struggle. Interdependence produces OPEN_MUSIC, in the spirit of the pioneering project OPEN_SAILING: www.opensailing.net OPEN_MUSIC means anyone is free to create and share and remix to their hearts content. We respect copyright laws to the extent they make sense, but acknowledge that everything is changing so fast that you cannot take a black and white moral stance. We judge copyright law to be a structure intended to safeguard two things: economic wellbeing, and personal pride/honor/fame. As such, we argue that all human knowledge should be free and shared as we have the technology to duplicate it at virtually no cost using 1's and 0's. However, authorship is a very important part of human nature and it must be respected. In other words; make sure to give props to the giants whose shoulders you stand on. And cite your sources. We will make every effort to release our work in various remix-able formats. All we ask is that you credit us where appropriate so that people can follow the mimetic trails of art and knowledge back through history. In conclusion, life is a party and a bold experiment. Treat yourself and others well and we will all prosper. In Love and Neon Rainbows, Interdependence Records


http://www.myspace.com/interdependencerecords

Aquanaut adventure, urine and drums

[via newscientist.com]

Well, this is not quite "open" nor "sailing", but it has a lot of cool stuff inside!

Aquanaut adventure

Imagine spending 13 days underwater with nothing for company except some urine-loving algae and a drum kit. It hardly sounds like a great holiday, but it was a dream project for Lloyd Godson, an Australian marine biologist who wanted to create and live inside his own "bio-regenerative microcosm".

Godson has spent the last couple of weeks living inside a metal box measuring 3m x 2m x 2m some 5m below the surface of a quarry lake near Albury in south-eastern Australia . He won £20,000 funding for his BioSUB project through a competition called "Live Your Dream", sponsored by the magazine Australian Geographic.

The BioSUB contained various systems to keep Godson alive and well. These included an algae biocoil to produce breathable oxygen and absorb exhaled carbon dioxide when soaked in his own urine.

Another system, called Air2Water absorbed moisture from the air to produce drinking water. And Solar panels back on the shore and an exercise bike inside the box produced electricity for light and a waterproof laptop. And, each day, meals were delivered by scuba divers, although the website mentions a plan to eat some of the algae too. Yummmm.

Apparently, Godson also helped stave off boredom by playing the drums (without fear of upsetting any neighbours). And he produced a surprisingly catchy song to celebrate his mission, which you can see him performing here. I really admire Godson's spirit of adventure. Hopefully it won't be long before we hear about another one of his unconventional research projects.

Will Knight, New Scientist Tech editor

Ocean farmers

As a matter fo fact we want to become "ocean farmers". Fish farms are super interesting structures to look at.
http://wwz.ifremer.fr/aquaculture/filieres
We want to grow as many things as possible, especially stuff we can eat.
We need to learn so many things, meet so many people...
Sea farming can look like this (source Kames sea farming products) :













OH! Made with tyres! Of course! Where shall we put all these tyres?

Peter von Bartheld sais:

There are quite a few companies constructing very fancy fish pens which can with stand violent storms and attacks from pretators. I would certainly be worth it to drag your fresh supply of fish along, right? One of those companies is Ocean Spar.

Could be just as good as...

They dont even realize, but they are swarming! How innocent!



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Appropriate technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

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http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Environmental_community_building

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology_designs

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Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social and economical aspects of the community it is intended for.[neutrality disputed] With these goals in mind, AT typically requires fewer resources, is easier to maintain, has a lower overall cost and less of an impact on the environment compared to industrialized practices.[1][neutrality disputed]

The term is usually used to describe simple technologies suitable for use in developing nations or less developed rural areas of industrialized nations.[1] This form of appropriate technology usually prefers labor-intensive solutions over capital-intensive ones, although labor-saving devices are also used where this does not mean high capital or maintenance cost. In practice, appropriate technology is often something described as using the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the intended purpose in a particular location. In industrialized nations, the term appropriate technology takes a different meaning, often referring to engineering that takes special consideration of its social and environmental ramifications.[2]