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This project was born out-off a conversation about designing clothes for extreme weather conditions. I expected to have a range of clothing items that would be suited to surviving specific meteorological threats. These would be either drawn or prototyped. These designs should be funny, so this implied they probably would be impracticable to some extent. To show the use of the inventions I imagined short stories and perhaps a collection of stories would be the end product. Another angle of creating a character would be to see how it can function as merchandise or how it can be weaved into the realities of FoAM. | This project was born out-off a conversation about designing clothes for extreme weather conditions. I expected to have a range of clothing items that would be suited to surviving specific meteorological threats. These would be either drawn or prototyped. These designs should be funny, so this implied they probably would be impracticable to some extent. To show the use of the inventions I imagined short stories and perhaps a collection of stories would be the end product. Another angle of creating a character would be to see how it can function as merchandise or how it can be weaved into the realities of FoAM. | ||
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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, | ||
- | Martin should be European, because of the Christian flavouring of the Climate | + | Martin should be European, because of the Christian flavouring of the climate-change debate. I chose Sweden as his native country. The unforbidding natural forces that shape that country would also shape the right kind of mental state for my survival engineer. In retrospect it is remarkable to see that for tackling the issues connected with the changing climate, I designed a suffering man in his thirties with long hair. The Christian imagery must have been playing in the back-ground. |
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- | == Justification of the methodology, the strength of physical experiments. == | + | == Justification of the methodology; the strength of physical experiments. == |
One person in particular inspired me to design these strange contraptions; | One person in particular inspired me to design these strange contraptions; | ||
- | Giving environmental problems a direct physical presence for people is one of the great obstacles within the debate. Things happen too slow to see and feel, but extreme weather that is associated with climate change is very tangible. Although it is too big to bring to peoples physical reality, like Saint Francis of Assisi often did, tsunamipants | + | Giving environmental problems a direct physical presence for people is one of the great obstacles within the debate. Things happen too slow to see and feel, but extreme weather that is associated with climate change is very tangible. Although it is too big to bring to peoples physical reality, like Saint Francis of Assisi often did, Tsunamipants |
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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.\\ | ||
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== Working process and results.== | == Working process and results.== | ||
- | This research gave me a much richer picture of meteorology, | + | This research gave me a much richer picture of meteorology, |
The list of weather catastrophes: | The list of weather catastrophes: |