(at some point – make album of photographs documenting project)
All the research exists on this miro board
BioShine Project – Canada Goose client brief
Category: Project Scope
Thinking about the Old Kent Road and pollution
I live next to the Old Kent road – I have been thinking about the traffic pollution a lot and the effect of and on Burgess park.
Fuels being burned. Man-made cosmetic habitats being disrupted and changed. Invisible destructive forces.
There is a constant transformation of materials – materials being destroyed in various ways – invisible state changes that permeate into the ambient environments to more or lesser degrees, for better or, more likely, for worse…
Thinking about sensing things and collecting data from those sensors on a spreadsheet to see patterns. Then I can think about an intervention? Could place this to see if it changes in any way? I can measure my interventions against the numbers that I collected with the sensor… concrete comparisons and pattern generation.
Maybe I should get a pm sensor? Can I / should I make this? Do CSM have them?
Look up YouTube of how to make hydrophone – bioacoustics of aquatic ecosystems…..
List of things to sense / sensors to collect:
AIR
- pm sensors (particulate matter?)
- Analogue sensors?
- sound? microphone, ambient sounds and object sounds?
WATER
- conductivity of the water? Is this an indicator of metal pollutants or or salts
- talk to Ryan from water aware and see what are useful parameters when sensing water
- sound? hydrophone
- Take water readings of burgess lake vs a puddle vs the Thames
SOIL
- sound? could speak to Eve about the warm project and maybe even reference their work and borrow warm recorder?
- Chromatography techniques? Get a nitrogen testing kit?
- ph?
Think about burgess park as a comparison to the old Kent road. Map burgess park, find the centre of that shape of the park? take readings in intervals towards the park
Think about the specific circumstance of road: the cars and traffic flow, do shop owners wash the pavement with chemicals? dropping cigarettes, isn’t there a car wash? Chemical water run off? Isn’t there a tire shop (plastic particles?) What shops are there? What industry? What runs into burgess park pond?
Think about getting my hands on as many sensors as I can – RS components is a good website for this I think?
Think about using QGis to get 3D data on burgess park
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Undeveloped intervention thought about making new types of sensors: is there a form of qualatitive data from changing coloured bacteria (or something) that can be measured again quantitate data I will collect over the next week or so……?
side note: I heard about a project where someone used a speakers that captured particulate matter – I think their name was Chloe – get in contact?
Sea Sponge structure
amazing structure
Ask Nature vibe of strength finding
https://newatlas.com/materials/sea-sponge-skeletons-stronger-structures/
elastane
people seem to make ‘biodegradable stuff’ but elastane is something they can’t replicate in a bio way…… #problemspace
found this article (5 april) but can’t read it atm
Melt spinning of CO2-based thermoplastic polyurethanes
of elastic yarns has grown massively over the past years, mainly driven by applications in apparel, sports, and medical textiles. For example, approx. 80 % of all currently circulated apparel textiles contain elastic yarns to provide stretch and
time management of last month
managing easter hol and summer term
informative design projects
Yesenia Thibault-Picazo (1987, France)
I really love how these projects make me think of what future humans may perceive of us. what they will make of us from the traces left behind. I think this is a really brilliant tool. speculation is like conscience raising, it brings someone out of their bubble of existence and helps us to imagine and fabricate an opinion or circumstance outside of us – whilst simultaneously being entirely linked to us…
THE CUMBRIAN BONE MARBLE
CRAFT IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Fleur Hullemen
I like his focus on tactility. I agree that the materiality of things can really elevate understandings of a broader network. it creates a space to engage different with objects and their material and cultural origins.
with the soft ceramics, it makes me think about all there ceramics a previously interact with and why they have been unsoft, why have they not felt like clay, a substance used by the most primitive of homo sapiens, earthly material that we have innovated and manipulated to express so many social-political things…
soft ceramics
the touchables
Franklin Till
FranklinTill is a futures research agency !!!! working with global brands and organisations to explore and implement design, material and colour innovation.
Shahar Livne
Balenciaga launched ‘Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow’, a video game specially designed for the Fall 21 collection. For this, Shahar Livne was commissioned by the fashion brand to design one of the Fall 21 jewellery line
Metamorphism
sea coalers
not a project – a phenomena where coal beds under these erode and coal gets washed up on beaches.
its a very old practice and se coalers have recently be banned from the beaches they usually collect from without being warned or confronted.
seems like a good example where by histories and livelihoods and practice are not considered enough in the present. a censoring of cultural context can be as damaging as carrying on those negative practice in the first place….
Clara Davis
Baum and Leahy
their projects are on all sorts of topics but mainly focus on allowing an audience to interactively engage with alternative perspectives –
non human ontological speculations …
they create object experiences and workshops to sensorially engage an audience with what ever it might be, algea, lichen, gut biom and attempts to find ways to alter how we understand them through reenacting their various forms of metabolising their surroundings
Meredith Wood
she is an RCA textiles/printing student looking at seaweed and algae
she’s created these really interesting bioplastic structures based
the queer institute of ecology
hozison – post anthropocene speculative futures where video game experience
material worlds? Resource geographies and the matter of nature (paper)
conductivity of spoil heaps
is there a way to use this conductivity to engage with the earth in new ways?
Salinity and conductivity measure the water’s ability to conduct electricity, which provides a measure of what is dissolved in water. In the SWMP data, a higher conductivity value indicates that there are more chemicals dissolved in the water.
Conductivity measures the water’s ability to conduct electricity. It is the opposite of resistance. Pure, distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity. When salts and other inorganic chemicals dissolve in water, they break into tiny, electrically charged particles called ions. Ions increase the water’s ability to conduct electricity. Common ions in water that conduct electrical current include sodium, chloride, calcium, and magnesium. Because dissolved salts and other inorganic chemicals conduct electrical current, conductivity increases as salinity increases. Organic compounds, such as sugars, oils, and alcohols, do not form ions that conduct electricity.
Why is Conductivity Important?Aquatic animals and plants are adapted for a certain range of salinity. Outside of this range, they will be negatively affected and may die. Some animals can handle high salinity, but not low salinity, while others can handle low salinity, but not high salinity.
Atmospheric CO2 Sequestration in Iron and Steel Slag: Consett, County Durham, United Kingdom
Carbonate formation in waste from the steel industry could constitute a nontrivial proportion of the global requirements for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a potentially low cost. To utilize this potential, we examined atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration in a >20 million ton legacy slag deposit in northern England, United Kingdom. Carbonates formed from the drainage water of the heap had stable carbon and oxygen isotope values between −12 and −25 ‰ and −5 and −18 ‰ for δ13C and δ18O, respectively, suggesting atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration in high-pH solutions. From the analyses of solution saturation states, we estimate that between 280 and 2900 tons of CO2 have precipitated from the drainage waters. However, by combining a 37 year long data set of the drainage water chemistry with geospatial analysis, we estimate that <1% of the maximum carbon-capture potential of the deposit may have been realized. This implies that uncontrolled deposition of slag is insufficient to maximize carbon sequestration, and there may be considerable quantities of unreacted legacy deposits available for atmospheric carbon sequestration.
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