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Possible Futures
The Guerilla Beehive is a starting point for an exploration of possible futures. Navigating between abstract thought and concrete experiences, I use my imagination to think about alternative futures. The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive can be seen as an artifact from the future, a fragment of a world to come. I use this tangible design fiction to tell a compelling story, and through an installation, constructed with elements of varous of my experiments, I create an immersive experiential future.
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)
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
