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Personal flotation device.\\ | Personal flotation device.\\ | ||
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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== 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. | ||