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-Luminous Green in Linz is organised by Time's Up, a member of the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators (http://fo.am/grig/), FoAM's long term partners and friends. The workshop started with a delicious dinner, prepared by a modest, but silently wonderful cuisiniere Marie, using local ingredients, from a village on the outskirts of Linz, that supplies our coffees and teas with delicious fresh milk as well.
+===== Luminous Green Workshop by Time's Up =====
-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.
+[[:workshop notes]]. 23-25 October 2008, Linz, Austria
-The content of this Luminous Green workshop grew out of Twixtville, a proposal for a fictional, lived-in & living village environment, embedded in a city of Linz. Tim  Boykett gave an overview of the relationship between Twixtiville and Luminous Green. As a village in a city, Twixtville was supposed to play with the various edges end tensions of its location. One of them was the prefix “green-”, that would incorporate real conflicts currently present in urban environments. When does it help to be green, and when is it too much of a hindrance? The topic of “urban greenness” was adopted, as a strategy to break through the monolyths of steel, glass and concrete that dominate our city-landscapes. It became truly personal, when Time's up met their new neighbours, who cleared an unused road and are now racing cars through their front garden; both the ecological and the social pleasure of having a small garden at the edge of an industrial zone were destroyed. Now Time's up is finding new ways to reclaim some of their lost paradise...
+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 and barrier-free approach through the backing of experts. This part of the workshop will focus on the creation of an environment that uses energy in sustainable ways and each constructed device fertilizes another. Having this in mind we would like to build an outdoor hot tub that is solely and independently in terms of energy usage and suitable for all seasons.
-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 the feasibility & sustainability of covering a whole peninsula with solar cells, when a simpler, and possibly more environmentally friendly grid solutions existed. Twixtville was designed as a neighbourhood in a city, and as such, wanted to offer the inhabitants of Linz (and beyond) a variety of cultural events, of which many use electrical power – concerts, performances, mechatronic devices, etc. In terms of the RRR strategy, it didn't make sense to reduce activities in Twixtville, but to reinforce the already existing philosophy of Time's Up to reuse and recycle materials and structures that can be found in an industrial environment like Linz. In this situation, they asked themselves how much production of excess is truly necessary? This question answered itself indirectly when, due to various unexpected and unfortunate circumstances, Twixtville was sent on its last journey by burning a boat with the concept document in it... Several interesting trajectories related to Luminous Green were abandoned in the process (at least for the time-being), such as looking at village level energy systems & energy autonomy, isolation & self-sustenance, solar cooling, or issues of permanence & compostability.
+As the Time`s Up workshop is situated next to the Danube the chance opened up to use this water for our intentions. And as breezes go by more often it seemed natural to take advantage of that too to build a wind powered water pump that delivers water from the Danube directly to the basins. Time`s Up is currently working on that and developed further plans to offer a pimping-station for the immediate physical and creative recreation of all workers. In addition the hot tub is meant to be as all season summer outdoor-experience for those of us who dare the climate situation in colder days or do not have to chance to vanish from winter.
-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), powered by a windmill based on an African rural design. The water will then be filtered (we will learn how to do this tomorrow) and poured into a large bath, made out of a leftover of a cargo container, discarded mattresses & tarpolins.The water will be warmed using an ingenious steam-engine, powered by washed-up pallets of wood. The surplus steam can also be used for teas and capuccinos... Bringing back the moments of beauty, using what's discarded and what's plentiful in the context of Linz.
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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://timesup.org/
+  * FoAM: http://fo.am/
+  * Andreas Strauss: http://andreasstrauss.com/
+  * Paul Schausberger: http://www.vt.tuwien.ac.at/ http://www.wabag.com/
+  * Folke Köbberling: http://www.folkekoebberling.de/
+  * Christian Siefkes: http://www.siefkes.net/
+Background information and assorted references can be found in the [[lg_tu_library|Library]]
+==== Project base ====
+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.
+=== 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.
+  * Windmill: http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD_40/VITA/WINDMILL/EN/WINDMILL.HTM
+  * Rope pump: http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php/Rope_pump
+  * Screw pump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_screw
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+=== Water Filter: ===
+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, with waste wood from the surrounding industry (shipping pallets, etc). This heat is transferred to an old boiler removed from a building heating system which produced steam at slightly above atmospheric pressure. The steam is streamed trough the fire again to reach a temperature around 150 degrees.
+=== 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.
+==== Programme ====
+**Thursday 23rd October 2008**
+.30 - 12.00
+  * Introduction Time's Up: [[http://www.timesup.org]]
+  * Introduction  Foam: [[http://www.fo.am]], [[http://luminousgreen.org]]
+  * Introduction Andreas Strauss: [[http://flickr.com/photos/andreasstrauss]]
+.30    Lunch
+  * strudel with spinach&feta
+.30 - 18.30
+  * Introduction Waterpump
+  * Hands-on Oven
+  * Hands-on Hot tub
+.00    Dinner
+  * Pumpkin seed soup
+  * Sweet cheese dumplings with stewed fruit
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+[[lg_tu_day1|Resume]]
+----
+**Friday 24th October 2008**
+.30 - 12.30
+  * Introduction Paul Schausberger: {{:luminous:luminousgreen_water.pdf|Slides}}
+  * Introduction Folke Köbberling: http://www.koebberlingkaltwasser.de/
+  * What to build:
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+.30     Lunch
+  * wok fried vegetables with and without meat
+.30 - 18.30
+  * Hands-on Oven
+  * Hands-on Jacuzzi
+  * Filtering Water
+  * City Resource Walk
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+.00    Dinner
+  * dumplings with mushroom sauce
+[[lg_tu_day2|Resume]]
+----
+**Saturday 25th October**
+.30 - 12.00
+  * Introduction Christian Siefkes: http://peereconomy.org/ {{:luminous:einfuehrung-peer-oekonomie.pdf|Slides}}
+.30     Lunch
+  * stuffed peppers
+.30 - 18.30
+  * Hands -on Oven
+  * Hands-on Jacuzzi
+  * Filtering Water
+  * Build an Environment
+.00    Dinner
+  * vegetable lasagne
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+[[lg_tu_day3|Resume]]
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+Photographic traces are to be found on:
+  * [[http://flickr.com/groups/luminous_green/|Luminous Green Pool on Flickr]]
+  * [[http://flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157608326244087/|Time's Up Flickr pages]]
+  * [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157608312299889/|FoAM's Flickr pages]]
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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.