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- | Luminous Green in Linz is organised | + | ===== Luminous Green Workshop |
- | The first morning session began with setting the context for the days to come. Andi Mayrhofer described his personal motivation for organising Luminous Green - “looking deeper into my simple life”, going beyond merely separating waste and examining the artistic and technological practice of Time's Up under the lens of envrionmental friendliness. Even though the artistic practice of Time's Up has not had renewable energy at its focus, many of their experimental situations (such as for example the “Hyperfitness studio”) use human power to activate their devices. At this moment, they are looking at new solutions that can both “work properly and be fun”, as well as changing some of the ingrained “weird begaviours” that are inherent in media art practices. | + | 23-25 October 2008, Linz, Austria |
- | The content of this Luminous Green workshop | + | The workshop in Linz at the Time's Up laboratories is concentrated on very detailed hands-on-practice where we would like to offer a simple |
- | Twixtville, although planned as a whole village, was not an isolated, off-the-grid hamlet in the middle of nowhere, where solar or wind power were the only feasible sources of energy. It was entangled with the urban infrastructure around it, so Time's Up were questioning | + | As the Time`s Up workshop is situated next to the Danube |
- | After Twixtville was definitely departed, several projects that originated within it were resurected, in order to improve the quality of the lifestyle at the Time's Up HQ. Instead of building a whole new temporary village, they decided to use existing environments – the water of the harbour, the well-equipped workshop, kitchen and various labs, the sun & wind. At this point a Luminous Green workshop was organised, to help both with building stuff, as well as “looking over the rims of individual tea cups” - by bringing a few groups together who “organise their individual interests in order to change their immediate environments strongly”. Every morning is reserved for sitting inside the warm rooms, listening & talking to each other. Afternoons take place outdoors & in the steel wonderland of the Time's up workshop. What happens there is an experiment to extend the pleasures of the short Austrian summers & the long warm evenings of watching movies outdoors. How? By reusing and recycling the materials & resources of the harbour to make an urban steam-bath, from which an audience of about 10 people can comfortably watch movies outdoors in mid-winter. Water from the Danube will be pumped up by an Archimedean screw pump (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_screw), | + | {{http:// |
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+ | Besides the hands on part we will take more overarching theoretical aspects into consideration too. As we would like to look over the rims of individual tea cups without discussing global troubles in common, we have chosen the approach to take a look at groups that organize their individual interests in order to change their immediate environments strongly. We would like to get an impression of local based issues and conflicts that entail potential to stimulate engagement and initiatives on a communal level to force self-organized behaviour. | ||
+ | We also would like to introduce more abstract appearing concepts about social and economic systems that are established bottom-up, issues of daily live we should reconsider and arising models that are getting relevant for the development of a global society. There are endless issues that are worth to work on within this context, but the main substructure of our intention is to turn our and your individual awarness into action, into a perspective that offers opportunities and sketches how to create ‚our world‘. We gather our individual standards as a basis for the turnover of future ideas and personal involvements. | ||
+ | * Time's Up: http:// | ||
+ | * FoAM: http:// | ||
+ | * Andreas Strauss: http:// | ||
+ | * Paul Schausberger: | ||
+ | * Folke Köbberling: | ||
+ | * Christian Siefkes: http:// | ||
+ | Background information and assorted references can be found in the [[lg_tu_library|Library]] | ||
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+ | ==== Project base ==== | ||
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+ | For this workshop we have collected some project parts that fit together as a starting scaffolding for plans, designs, building and rebuilding. While we believe that these plans are realisable and will be carried through, we remain wide open to other possibilities for projects in the format. | ||
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+ | === Windmill - water source: === | ||
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+ | This project, already mostly complete, is based upon the use of a third world technology base in order to get water up from the Harbour for use in a water system. The windmill runs (in case we have wind), running two pumping systems. The first system is an Archimedes Screw, a pump system that dates back millennia. The water is brought from the harbour up to a reservoir at ground level. A second Rope Pump, an very simple system, brings that water up to the second reservoir, around 3 meters above ground level. | ||
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+ | * Windmill: http:// | ||
+ | * Rope pump: http:// | ||
+ | * Screw pump: http:// | ||
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+ | === Water Filter: === | ||
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+ | A simple and easily constructed water filter system to take out the impurities in the water. The Danube and the Harbour water is actually almost drinking quality, so the filtering that is needed is mainly aesthetic, getting rid of the suspended particles, glacial dust and river mud, algal growth and suchlike. | ||
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+ | === Steam production: === | ||
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+ | A simple burner system based upon 200 liter tanks, previously used for heating oil or fruit juice concentrate, | ||
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+ | === Baths: === | ||
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+ | A number of simple bath systems are the end point of this network. Filtered water is fed under wind power slowly into a bath. The steam supply, a very efficient way of transferring heat energy (it is how the planet does it) is fed into the water, the steam recondensing and releasing its heat into the body of water. This heats the water, leading to a steamy winter Jakuzi system. The baths that are planned include ones built from a slice from a container from a design project and single person baths from fruit juice concentrate barrels. | ||
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+ | ==== Programme ==== | ||
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+ | **Thursday 23rd October 2008** | ||
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+ | 09.30 - 12.00 | ||
+ | * Introduction Time's Up: [[http:// | ||
+ | * Introduction | ||
+ | * Introduction Andreas Strauss: [[http:// | ||
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+ | 12.30 Lunch | ||
+ | * strudel with spinach& | ||
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+ | 13.30 - 18.30 | ||
+ | * Introduction Waterpump | ||
+ | * Hands-on Oven | ||
+ | * Hands-on Hot tub | ||
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+ | 19.00 Dinner | ||
+ | * Pumpkin seed soup | ||
+ | * Sweet cheese dumplings with stewed fruit | ||
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+ | [[lg_tu_day1|Resume]] | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | **Friday 24th October 2008** | ||
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+ | 10.30 - 12.30 | ||
+ | * Introduction Paul Schausberger: | ||
+ | * Introduction Folke Köbberling: | ||
+ | * What to build: | ||
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+ | 12.30 | ||
+ | * wok fried vegetables with and without meat | ||
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+ | 13.30 - 18.30 | ||
+ | * Hands-on Oven | ||
+ | * Hands-on Jacuzzi | ||
+ | * Filtering Water | ||
+ | * City Resource Walk | ||
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+ | 19.00 Dinner | ||
+ | * dumplings with mushroom sauce | ||
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+ | [[lg_tu_day2|Resume]] | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | **Saturday 25th October** | ||
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+ | 10.30 - 12.00 | ||
+ | * Introduction Christian Siefkes: http:// | ||
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+ | 12.30 | ||
+ | * stuffed peppers | ||
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+ | 13.30 - 18.30 | ||
+ | * Hands -on Oven | ||
+ | * Hands-on Jacuzzi | ||
+ | * Filtering Water | ||
+ | * Build an Environment | ||
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+ | 19.00 Dinner | ||
+ | * vegetable lasagne | ||
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+ | [[lg_tu_day3|Resume]] | ||
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+ | This workshop is a part of gRig, the Guild for Reality Integration and Generation, supported by the European Union as a part of the Culture 2000 Programme. | ||