Open_Sailing after winning [Golden Nica [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant 2009] was invited to be exhibited at 2010 Tokyo Midtown Design Touch, in Japan.
Open Sailing / Open_Sailing_Crew [Golden Nica [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant 2009] http://www.opensailing.net
“Open Sailing” is the vision of an organic architecture that constitutes a laboratory for techno-social experiments. As nothing less than a process for surmounting all possible natural and human-generated catastrophes, this ambitious undertaking’s aims include fostering the human spirit of inventiveness and strengthening social solidarity. The ultimate mission of “Open Sailing” is to take on challenges like overpopulation, climate change and energy conflicts with do-it-yourself technologies: Instinctive_Architecture, Energy_Animal and Life_Cable are some of the new approaches that are being developed and tested. The immediate objective is facilitating R&D within the mobile, nomadic system of “Open Sailing”—a floating city consisting of solid, well-appointed buildings surrounded by oceanic fields. With navigation controlled by a Swarm_Search_Engine, the floating city is continually steered in the direction of what is at any particular instant the safest location. The physical configuration of the floating platform is constantly undergoing rearrangement to assure the most efficient management of information, energy and other resources. “Open Sailing” calls into question the way we are currently populating and exploiting our planet, and asks if it could be possible to coexist in a harmonious interrelationship with one another and with our environment.
Dates: 2010/10/28 - 2010/11/13. Tokyo Midtown Design Touch. With Good Design.
デザインを五感で楽しむイベントして2007年より開始した
「Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH」。
"未知なるデザインと出会う場"として、さまざまなイベントを開催してきました。
今年のテーマは「未来の手ざわり」 。
世界的に名高いインタラクティブ・アートの文化機関「アルスエレクトロニカ」とコラボレートし、
デザインとテクノロジーの融合から生まれた“未来”を感じられるデザインを展示します。
その他にも、多数のデザインイベントを同時期に開催 。
この秋、東京ミッドタウンで、デザインの魅力にふれてください 。
