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 That is the tragedy in which the inventor [[Martin Brolin]] is caught in the Tsunamipants project. Martin engages the extreme weather conditions that are associated with future climate changes and tries to engineer his way out-off  danger. In his work Mr. Brolin suffers from lack of expertise, lack of talent, lack of budged, oversized ambition and being over-all mediocre. These are common human traits that run beneath the surface of positive social change. To be able to construct anything realistically and therefor longlasting, I suggest we start by acknowledging that there is nothing inherently wrong with being mediocre. I realise that this goes against giant forces in popular culture, but Martin is deliberately portrayed as a mediocre inventor, although I only later became fully conscious of why I was doing this.
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 == Related projects. ==
-[[Tsunami Pants]] is embedded in the European tradition of the drawn narrative. There is a long tradition of mad-scientist and eccentric inventors in fiction. There are other art and design projects, that tackle the same problem.\\
+[[Tsunami Pants]] is embedded in the European tradition of the drawn narrative. There is a long tradition of mad-scientist and eccentric inventors in fiction. There are other art and design projects, that tackle the same problem, but none offer a historic collection and make designs and embed it specifically into the debate about climate change.\\
 Some are closely related, use humor like:
   * The Yesmen, made the survivaball.
   * Troy Hurtubise, made the Grizzly and Troyan suits.
+  * Inflatable swimming trunks and other inventions in the same spirit by real people are documented on [[http://blog.modernmechanix.com|Modern Mechanics]]
 Others are more loosely related, and serious like:
   * Adam Whinton and Yolita Nugent's project 'no-contact' selfdefence jacket for women.
-  * Intercative clothes by, XS-lab, Despina and Papadopoulos or Hussein Chalayan.
+  * Interactive clothes by, XS-lab, Despina and Papadopoulos or Hussein Chalayan.
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   * Disease: this secondary effect of bad weather conditions is in third place. Because not all medicine falls into this category.
   * Drowning: and other water related risks are very big business for offshore and recreational purposes.
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-  * comparison of the expected and the actual results
+== Comparison of the expected and the actual results. ==
-  * suggestions and comments on the research process and its results
+== Suggestions and comments on the research process and its results. ==
-  * suggestions for the future work based on the conclusions of the research
-  * comments on the response of the public
+== Suggestions for the future work based on the conclusions of the research. ==
+  * The [[survival engineering]] collection could be extended with strategies used by animals and plants.
+  * Martin Brolin could be used to study the possibilities of merchandising.
+  * Design could move into 3-d prototyping.
+  * Design could be extended into material research.
+  * Tunamipants could pop-up in FoAM or FoAM partner events
+==Public response. ==
 The design of Martin with a bad haircut, slightly overweight and big was intended to place him as a very ordinary guy. But some members of the public have commented that they found it difficult to feel sympathy for him. During the process Martin sometimes devolved somewhat into a bum. He sometimes became more of a caricature, this was largely due to the style of drawing that was applied and the scale of working.