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     Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers, Man’s New Dialogue With Nature,1979
 __further reading:__
-[[http://www.notbored.org/new-babylon.html|constant nieuwenhuys, new babylon]]
+{{http://www.notbored.org/new-babylon.html|constant nieuwenhuys, new babylon}}
 {{:ua:politicsofchange.pdf|annemie maes: politics of change}}
+{{http://www.futureproofed.com/en/why|futureproofed}}
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 =====01. the Urban ArtFarm project=====
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 =====06. visible weather & green technology : the digital gardener======
+The Time Inventors’ Kabinet connects local OpenGreens in an international network of experimental gardens where artists work with natural processes.
+These gardening situations serve especially to look into microsociological and ecological systems related to time as starting points for the development of new artistic practices. The OpenGreens allow us to study the implementation of contemporary art in an ecological context and to observe and draw content from eco-data and natural patterns and processes.
+Using media technology and electronics as research tools in these shared laboratories, data from various ecosystems are collected over a period of time. The artistic output of this data collection process will be the creation of electronic interfaces that will then be used to reinterpret the data to explore time-related poetics such as synchronicity and irregularity through electronics, and of developing a common language about time.
+The synonyms for an OpenGreen are many: the experimental Hortus, the OpenAir Laboratorium, the Vivarium, the Kabinet of Wonders. But all OpenGreens are zones where culture and nature overlap and where these two enter into a symbiotic relationship with research and experimentation.
+In the OpenGreens, the Time Inventors document the beauty of nature in data. They classify and archive their notes and findings in OpenGreens databases. They compare and develop concepts, interpret complex biotic shapes and research repetitive natural patterns. They connect nature with media art.
+There are architectural models that are made after biomimesis of e.g. hexagonal honeycomb cells; data are extracted from plant-connected sensors and are converted into algorithms that generate abstract visualizations. Analogue or digital approaches: the Time Inventors make use of a diversity of methods to study the art forms in nature.
+But, how can the OpenGreens’ evolution be visualized or made audible in artworks? Can the gardens’ (a)biotic organisms' processes provide new artistic environments or new forms of representations of ‘the artificial/nature’? How can art and technology today present a different view on nature?
+During the TIK-time of the project, artists delve into the matter and with the mutual aid of scientists and engineers they open an investigation that may lead into some unexpected artistic results.
+The Brussels OpenGreens have a strong urban embedment. In two related urban rooftop gardens artists carry out long-term observations on the growth, blossoming and decay of plants exposed to natural elements such as wind, sun, rain and pollution in an urban context. The close monitoring of social insects, in this case several colonies of city honeybees, is an important part of the study.
+These urban OpenGreens are artiﬁcial environments, hybrids of nature and culture. They are set up to research different bottom-up approaches for designing green human environments that have the diversity of natural ecosystems. The OpenGreens database keeps accurate track of the monitoring of these ecosystems. Technology is inserted in the gardens and allows the gardeners to take a closer look at biotic matter. The harvest is about collecting data of any kind, both on a micro garden level and on a macro city level, and using the data for organic and media applications.
+All Time Inventors interested in monitoring their city gardens or urban edgelands and compare their observations are invited to become contributors to the OpenGreens database.
+Everybody is free to use the open data format in the OpenGreens database (xml) for their personal artistic projects.
   * Plants as inspiration for a changing mindset. Plants are sustainable, they recycle their own waste, they produce their own energy (photosynthesis). They fertilise the soil (organic/anorganic matter) and clean the air (Co2/ photosynthesis)
   * neon sign works / plants / photosynthesis
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   * check also the plants pollution on cellular level: talk to biologist and find out about sensors to measure plant pollution
   * detection with heat camera
+====topics to research====
+  * pollution (air, soil) pollution in plantcells
+  * pollution meters:
+- light pollution meter
+- electromagnetical pollution meter
+- air pollution meter : air quality (optical->dust, O3, CH4, CO2)
+http://sensorapp.net/?p=479 (optical dust sensor)
+- carbon monoxide pollution meter
+- lead pollution meter
+- exhaust gasses pollution meter
+- noise pollution meter
+- soil pollution meter => check with lab
+http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3277
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollutant_concentrations
+http://www.notre-planete.info/actualites/actu_3432_jardin_ouvrier_sante.php
+  * bird attacks
+  * waterproblems
+  * meteo-set (temperature, sun, humidity, wind, rain)
+  * micro-ecosystem greenhouse
+  * aquaponics
+- corridors: bee-activity in the starting garden (in front of hive, motion detection) + mapping/monitoring of the surrounding plants/vegetables
+=> check further with corridors if there is a difference yes/no with presence of bees and mapping of plants.
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 __further reading:__
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 - lead pollution meter
 - exhaust gasses pollution meter
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 =====09. the self sufficient garden : energetic skin=====
 ====composting: with a little help of our friends====
 The self sufficient garden is not far away. With a little help from our friends, the small micro-organisms we can find in amounts of zillions in the garden compost heap, we can make microbial fuel cells which can power small devices (sensors) for monitoring the gardens.
+{{:ua:compostmicroorganisms.jpg|}}
 http://padma.okno.be/Vh6euewf/00:00:00.000-00:03:06.000
 Microscope registration of the micro organism activity in a rooftop compost heap. The organisms are ± 1 mm long, there are zillions of it in the compost, the surface covered here is ± 5 square mm.
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 http://opengreens.okno.be/plant_timeline.php?id=145
-{{:ua:moss01.jpg?250x188|moss on the roofs of the valldaura project}}{{:ua:moss02.jpg?250x188|moss on the roofs of the valldaura project}}
+{{:ua:moss01.jpg?200x150|moss on the roofs of the valldaura project}}{{:ua:moss02.jpg?200x150|moss on the roofs of the valldaura project}}
 While green roofing is an accepted stormwater control technology, little is known about the quality of the roof runoff. In Phase I of this research, several green roof media (formed from commonly-used expanded minerals, stormwater filter media, and organic matter) were evaluated for their abilities to retain the pollutants from a synthetic acid rain. The samples were analyzed for metals, nutrients, and pH. The hypothesis was that a mixed media that is “better” at pollutant removal and permanent retention could be created based on these laboratory testing results. A media composed of expanded shale, granular activated carbon, and sphagnum peat moss was the most effective.
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 [josep lascurain golferichs, biòleg - Valldaura project]
+====the honey batteries : collecting energy from the garden====
+{{:ua:honey_batteries.pdf|honey batteries}}
+====mycology-lab : soil remediation====
+{{:ua:mycology-lab.pdf|mycology lab}}
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 **common magpie (ekster)** : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Magpie
-=====topics to research=====
-  * pollution (air, soil) pollution in plantcells
-  * pollution meters:
-- light pollution meter
-- electromagnetical pollution meter
-- air pollution meter : air quality (optical->dust, O3, CH4, CO2)
-http://sensorapp.net/?p=479 (optical dust sensor)
-- carbon monoxide pollution meter
-- lead pollution meter
-- exhaust gasses pollution meter
-- noise pollution meter
-- soil pollution meter => check with lab
-http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3277
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollutant_concentrations
-http://www.notre-planete.info/actualites/actu_3432_jardin_ouvrier_sante.php
-  * bird attacks
-  * waterproblems
-  * meteo-set (temperature, sun, humidity, wind, rain)
-  * micro-ecosystem greenhouse
-  * aquaponics
-- corridors: bee-activity in the starting garden (in front of hive, motion detection) + mapping/monitoring of the surrounding plants/vegetables
-=> check further with corridors if there is a difference yes/no with presence of bees and mapping of plants.
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 =====15. project timeline=====
 /01+02  => designing the garden, selecting trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables
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 /12/01 => Radek, preparing the garden for winter (all water related stuff)
 /12/03 => Otber, preparing the garden for winter : prune, plant new fruittrees
+/12/06-7 => Shu Lea Cheang and Malik, harvesting the last potatoes
+/12/08 => cleaning up the greenhouse, composting last tomato plants