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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. 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. == == 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, but none offer a historic collection and make designs and embed it specifically into the debate about climate change.\\+[[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 none make design-series embedded specifically into the debate about climate change.\\
 Some are closely related, use humor like: Some are closely related, use humor like:
-  * The Yesmen, made the survivaball. +  * The Yesmen made the survivaball, Ann de Gersem made the Life dress, Yael Mer made the Canoe dress. 
-  * Troy Hurtubise, made the Grizzly and Troyan suits.+  * 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]]    * Inflatable swimming trunks and other inventions in the same spirit by real people are documented on [[http://blog.modernmechanix.com|Modern Mechanics]] 
 +  * Digital Peacock Tales, designed by Magnus Torstensson of [[http://www.unsworn.org| Unsworn]]
 +  * Eelko Moorer made Emergency Games, a booklet of rather unimaginative but dangerous games to be played at home.
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 Others are more loosely related, and serious like: Others are more loosely related, and serious like:
   * Adam Whinton and Yolita Nugent's project 'no-contact' selfdefence jacket for women.   * Adam Whinton and Yolita Nugent's project 'no-contact' selfdefence jacket for women.
-  * Interactive 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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 I made one case study by following the events around a particularly violent storm on January 18, 2007 in the Netherlands.\\ I made one case study by following the events around a particularly violent storm on January 18, 2007 in the Netherlands.\\
 [[Storm]] [[Storm]]
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   * smoke and ash   * smoke and ash
   * mist   * mist
 +  * forestfire
 +  * turbulence
  
 How they hurt: How they hurt:
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   * falling through ice   * falling through ice
   * hunger   * hunger
-  * and the various diseases that move trough refugee camps.+  * inflammation 
 +  * missing limbs 
 +  * being crushed 
 +  * burning 
 +  * loss of consciousness 
 +  * excessive bleeding 
 +  * and the various diseases that move trough refugee camps
  
 Urban dangers: Urban dangers:
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   * falling power-cables   * falling power-cables
   * collapsing structures and large things falling over   * collapsing structures and large things falling over
-  * panicking masses+  * panicking masses and traffic
  
 Positive side-effects: Positive side-effects:
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   * Disease: this secondary effect of bad weather conditions is in third place. Because not all medicine falls into this category.   * 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.   * 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. ==
 +My research broadened from designing clothes for meteorological catastrophes to a wild and hilarious journey through portable safety technology. I did not go into material research for this because that seemed like a world too vast to cover. And it would not have been effective for reaching my goal, which relies more on imagination than on expertise. But it would have fitted nicely with research done by Lina Kusaite, who is looking into developing a material library.
 +The domain of portable safety technology turned out to be much more varied than I anticipated. The history of portable personal safety technology is rich. An overview of this field formed and it shows the diversity of technologies and suggests risk hierarchies. For a successful Tsunamipants design some ingredients are crucial. I look at the combinations of already existing products and fusing them into an unlikely hybrid. As noted above, the need to shift focus became apparent during the design stages. This resulted in designs for many different situations, more connected to climate change issues in a broad sense and not just weather induced disasters.
  
 == Suggestions and comments on the research process and its results. == == Suggestions and comments on the research process and its results. ==
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   * The [[survival engineering]] collection could be extended with strategies used by animals and plants.   * 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.   * Martin Brolin could be used to study the possibilities of merchandising.
-  * Design could move into 3-d prototyping. +  * Move into 3-d prototyping. 
-  * Design could be extended into material research. +  * Extend into material research. 
-  * Tunamipants could pop-up in FoAM or FoAM partner events+  * Tunamipants could pop-up in FoAM or FoAM partner events. 
 +  * Move from the history of safety into the direction of the history of sustainability. I've started tracing my own cultural roots; into the Zeeuwse farms and their (forgotten) technologies. 
 +  * More Tsunamifood, like the Noodleboots, and associated recipes.
  
 ==Public response. == ==Public response. ==
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