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Royal College of Art
design for 2012
Do you remember the big 2001 bug, everything was supposed to fail, the technological world should have collapsed… And you’re reading this blog.
Fear must have been the most powerful influence on politics, economy, family, personal emancipation since… forever. Some might say we are driven by our desires, I think we can attribute an equal responsability to fear, may it be of the father, the police, the state, satan, eternal damnation… So this is an opportunity for incredible power, for the ones that would propose a swindler type placebo solution… Do we want to be one of those, exploiting peoples fears? Or shall we bring -almost realistic- design proposal, like bunkers (aren’t they -fallout shelters- perfect objects of mind control?). And what if it really happens?
I don’t know if you heard about it, but the world -as we know it- is said to go through an extraordinary change pretty soon. They are supposingly many scientific correlationsand prophecies : The mayan calendarending, the real peak oil (graph above with different theories) or its aftermath, the end of Kyoto protocol, 7 billion humans on earth, eventually World Wide 3 (George Bush proposing World Wide 3 video), globalpandemic, the opening of freedom tower (ground zero), pole shift, (geomagnetic reversal), galactic alignment, we have our doomsday clock telling us how many minutes we are to “midnight“.
We have many ways to look at a plausible apocalypse (2012 doomsday video) more or less sound. So much mysteries, what do people expect from such an event? Freedom? Sudden death? A new Age? What can we sell them to celebrate (HAHAHAHAHAH!)? Make the end -new beginning- more comfortable? What is the relation of causality between our fear-desire (hypothesis of collective-conciousness) for the event and it’s actual happening?
Today, what we call doomsday device is this :
Not very nice, it is called a planet killer (could be an asteroid)… We might not die of it directly but of itsfallout, very gradually. Shouldn’t there be many different protective doomsday devices? Friendly ones! Shall we get out of this dominator culture?
It doesn’t matter if it is true or false, but anxiety is there… What to do of this anxiety? If we (humans) survive, shall we design longer term? Something completely out of cultural references, and according tocosmic patterns? Can we offer this “out of time” mind control - kingdom? How to embody such idea? Here is a nice forum of this crazyness. Enjoy life… NOW !
Mind control VS Free will
We were given today at the RCA a new brief “the blueprint of control, mind as material.
Maybe it is good to observe the forces involved. A priori it is quite simple, we generally apply mind control to the outside frustrating world, inside which we have difficulties applying our free will…
But isn’t it our decision to mind control ourselves? Why such a bad judgement against mind control?
Isn’t each of us free? Isn’t the world free? Some might say, we’re not, we can argue it is. Or it might be all about statistics or subconcious…
So where does this idea of mind control comes from?
Isn’t it : mind control ∈ free will? So why fearing it?
Or is the way free will proceeds is through mind control (taxonomy)?
I am lost…
back in London
Here I am, back in London! Feels so good! I arrived by bus with the sun rising, now I have this classy table in front of a big window in an empty quiet Lab, aaaaahhh, what a great moment!
Except I have this Mount Cesar of Rubbish just by me to classify, clean, and dispatch or recycle for future generations… waahhh, how come I have so much stuff??!
Urban Space Station Video !
URBAN SPACE STATION Sofia, Madrid 2008 from cesar harada on Vimeo. All documentation on http://urbanspacestation.org.
Chris Hand soundtoy sketch
OSC/ChucK soundtoy sketch from Chris Hand on Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/1445199
Turn up the volume, full-screen, comfy, ready for a basic synesthetic experience? I like so much!
Urban Space Station Sofia in space
The station construction is completed… Now it all looks so simple!
An astronaut ready for launching.
Here is the space station!
How it looks inside, it is a small crowed space, looks better in video, soon.
That’s a lazy astronaut!
Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures of our own work during the launching, we will do a proper filming session soon + video.
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Tonight was the VIP launch, I think it was very successful, people
were surprised, interested, and honnestly that was a lot of people for a night the Spanish football team plays a quarter-final of Euro, 3-0 against Russia, Madrid was just mad tonight, most people were as naked and nervous as me in the streets! heheheh!
The intestine of the bug
The construction was very intense today… tired! Everything has to be done tomorow, big time! I’m quite impressed how disorganised the construction was, but somehow it seems that we are going to make it happen… put it together with some spanish magic perhaps.
Here are the people of our team who made this possible! Without these guys to hold the tubes, without thes many clever hands, wouldn’t have been possible … OOAAAAHHH OYASUMI!!!
Rising the space station !
The aquaponic circuit is ready to hang up onto the structure !
The station is being skinned up ! Woaahhh! It’s coming up!
coupling a human and a station with air, urine and feces
In order to make obvious the connections between the station and human we need to link them physically,the one we are interested the most are the air, urine (piss) and feces (shit) managment. I made some researches and found some good existing products for breathing system:
Even a baby can tolerate such an “invasive” apparel, the people in the station could as well, but reduces the mobility. Now about Urine:
For the urine and feces I found this amazing ressource: Urine and Bowel Management for children with Spinal Cord Injury and Spina Bifida, Copyright © 1987 by David Werner for the Hesperian Foundation, “Disabled Village Children” project.
Also truck drivers have some sort of solution to that problem, in a truck driver style, hahaha!
We learn how to use a catheter or how to make one ourself the DIY way. The urinary is not that difficult, but the system for feces as it is semi-solid is more challenging…
I found this type of equipment searching for bowel managment. The process depends a lot on the quality of the human feces, according to the Bristol Chart below.
Woooo,,, this project, starts to scare me a little bit huhuhuhu!…… And how to find all this equipment in Madrid?..
And, don’t forget to drink a lot!
