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- | =====Speculative Stories===== | + | =====Possible Futures===== |
- | An exploration of possible futures. Navigating between abstract thought and concrete experiences, | + | The Guerilla Beehive is a starting point for an exploration of possible futures. Navigating between abstract thought and concrete experiences, |
- | There is the Intelligent Guerilla Beehive, which can be seen as an artifact from the future, a fragment of a world to come. I will use this tangible design fiction to tell a compelling story, and I will make an installation with elements of varous experiments | + | \\ |
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+ | =====Stories===== | ||
+ | … create stories, artifacts, interactions that embody a fictional world, and at the same time tell a story about the reality we all know. | ||
+ | - topic: disappearance of the bees | ||
+ | - timeline: 10 to 50 years from now | ||
+ | - 'what if' | ||
+ | - what are the main things that have changed in this future: what problems changed? what activities increased? what are the surprising new things? | ||
+ | - remarkable object from the future to illustrate the scenario (GBH: object __from__ the future) | ||
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+ | Bacteria, viruses and microbes living in skins, making patterns reflecting the environmental threats. | ||
+ | A double-sided cellulose skin, waxed at the one side and dressed with a pattern of porous stomata at the other side. An empty space in-between, giving room to beneficial bacteria to attack the varroa mites (BlackBetty) or a place for wicks drenched with Thymol essential oils to spread a constant tension. | ||
+ | The skin is a smart composite that integrates a mix of organic and electronic elements for sensing, actuating, for computation and for communication. | ||
=====Visuals===== | =====Visuals===== | ||
- | {{: | + | I imagine sending out my bees which are synthetically modified to forage on all kind of pesticides in order to make fields and soils clean again and, together, let us start all over … |
+ | {{gallery>: | ||
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