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Machine Wilderness Workshops
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- start with a general introduction of Machine Wilderness and the workshop / 30min
- then move outside for a visit to some mixed green zone, do warm up / 15min
fieldwork part 1:
- people each explore the terrain imagining a typical day of an animal / 20 min
- [what are it's daily goals?]
- [what are it's daily challenges?]
- [what opportunities is it looking for?]
- [how / where does it get information to act on?]
- [what social communities does it belong to?]
- [how does it avoid danger?]
- [what is it's energy source?]
- [how does it celebrate it's existence?]
- take notes, make sketches in notebooks
- regroup and review what happened, feedback from group and by Matthew from experience in behavioral ecology. / 10 min
fieldwork part 2:
- explore the same are looking at the animal as a force of influence on its environment / 15 min
- regroup and review what occurred, feedback from group and by Matthew from experience in behavioral ecology. / 10 min
fieldwork part 3:
- decide if you work alone or in a group
- based on our observations from the perspective of the animal we try to design a 'wilderness machine' based on it's phenology
- so imagine you are a machine that wants to be a bird (or your animal of choice) and learn how to do that by joining the local population
- [how would it make contact?]
- [where would it go, what would do?]
- [what would be its strategy?]
- [what role could it play in that community / population?]
fieldwork part 4:
- explore the area looking at the force of influence of your 'wilderness machine'
- we go back inside, review, document(!) and relax