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Picture from: Le Portefeuille Industriel, a collection of technical drawings from Musée des Arts et Métiers. | Picture from: Le Portefeuille Industriel, a collection of technical drawings from Musée des Arts et Métiers. | ||
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The Tsunamipants project surfaced from this shift as an attempt to address these issues in an engaging way. | The Tsunamipants project surfaced from this shift as an attempt to address these issues in an engaging way. | ||
- | How do you relate to a Global | + | How do you relate to global |
The Tsunamipants project shows the traps that are hidden in responding to problems by coming up with solutions that are built within the limits of the problem. This invariably creates new versions of the same problem, it doesn' | The Tsunamipants project shows the traps that are hidden in responding to problems by coming up with solutions that are built within the limits of the problem. This invariably creates new versions of the same problem, it doesn' | ||
- | 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 | + | 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 |
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==== Context ==== | ==== Context ==== | ||
== Inconvenience. == | == Inconvenience. == | ||
- | This research was undertaken in the middle of the Climate Change debate. A seminal event that shapes | + | This research was undertaken in the middle of the Climate Change debate. A seminal event that shaped |
What adds to the feelings of despair around these issues is the complicated nature of environmental and social problems and solutions. There are seemingly endless secondary effects and influences hidden beneath the surface of discussions. | What adds to the feelings of despair around these issues is the complicated nature of environmental and social problems and solutions. There are seemingly endless secondary effects and influences hidden beneath the surface of discussions. | ||
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== Positive change. == | == Positive change. == | ||
- | Recently some advocates of change based on positive arguments have become more visible such as the ' | + | Recently some advocates of change based on positive arguments have become more visible such as the ' |
== Tsunamipants applied in a society of risks. == | == Tsunamipants applied in a society of risks. == | ||
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And the World Economic Forum has a Global Risk Network which brings out annual reports on global risks. | And the World Economic Forum has a Global Risk Network which brings out annual reports on global risks. | ||
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+ | == Safety engineering. == | ||
+ | Safety engineering usually is seen as a part of system engineering. It studies the working of a system when a part of it fails. The dynamics of this are visualized in a fault tree diagram. So this study is limited to faults that occur in the category of manufactured risks. Martin Brolin works mostly with external risks or with manufactured risks that result from external risks. | ||
== The myth of happiness. == | == The myth of happiness. == | ||
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* Adam Whinton and Yolita Nugent' | * Adam Whinton and Yolita Nugent' | ||
* 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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+ | Wikipedia has a nice page on PPE Personal Protective Equipment, which I stumbled upon when I was almost finished with my collection: | ||
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* if the actual outcomes are different than the expected outcome, the reasons for this should be explained in the " | * if the actual outcomes are different than the expected outcome, the reasons for this should be explained in the " | ||
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== Designing Tsunamipants, | == Designing Tsunamipants, | ||
- | The first step to design portable safety technology for natural disasters is to make a full list of these horrors. From this the first opportunities for design become apparent. This can be complemented by a list of controversial technologies, events, objects or places connected to the Climate change discussion, such as biofuels, air-travel, SUV-s and holiday-resorts. By pairing disasters to items from the other lists inspiring combinations can be found. | + | The first step to design portable safety technology for natural disasters is to make a full list of these horrors. From this the first opportunities for design become apparent. This can be complemented by a list of controversial technologies |
- | Making a collection of historic and current solutions in wearable safety systems, gives a greater scope of possibilities in this field. I also looked at protective systems used by animals, for instance the fat-layer used by sealions for insulation and food reserve. And I based Martin' | + | |
- | == Designing | + | == Character development of Martin Brolin. == |
The narrative structure of this research hinted at the value of having a central character. While driving to the supermarket, | The narrative structure of this research hinted at the value of having a central character. While driving to the supermarket, | ||
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The public responded well to presentations. Finding unlikely combinations, | The public responded well to presentations. Finding unlikely combinations, | ||
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* http:// | * http:// | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
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Books and magazines: | Books and magazines: | ||
* Plan B, Rescuing a Planet under Stress, Lester Brown | * Plan B, Rescuing a Planet under Stress, Lester Brown | ||
* Gaston LeGaffe, Andre Franquin | * Gaston LeGaffe, Andre Franquin | ||
+ | * Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest kid on earth, Chris Ware | ||
+ | * Top Ten, Alan Moore | ||
* How should we then live?, Francis A. Schaeffer | * How should we then live?, Francis A. Schaeffer | ||
* Nexus #44 #46 #47 http:// | * Nexus #44 #46 #47 http:// |