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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]]   * 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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