RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS: this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project LUCID STEAD Located out in the middle of the Joshua Tree desert in California, the use of colorful LED lights and an a awe-inspiring landscape perfectly combines together in this piece. It’s an installation that, although isn’t in a public space seen by many, it totally deserves a moment to shine in the spotlight. Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert.  When [...]

Food Deserts - mapping Pollinator maps Mapping: Google Map API Open Streetmap - creative mapping - microclimate(s) - localized climate - sustainability micro-climates - urban micro-climates MICRO-CLIMATES - specialists of a particular area urban micro-climates - designing the space between buildings - localized ethnic languages - accents/neighborhood localized - diversity in micro-climates - ethnic history - evolution of the city - food deserts - no grocery store for miles - what co-maps on top of each other for sustainable microclimates - food justice - food access - issues that disseminate down to the population - community gardens [...]

:: bioculturalism > enchainments & emergence > pathways, networks, interactions > biomimicry, bioprospecting and biopiracy > bioethics :: creative mapping and community visualization > studio work session

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS: this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project Solar canopy turns sunlight into electricity and art In the desert metropolis of Dubai, where the summer is one long heat wave, shade is precious as people seek refuge from the sun's scorching rays. Enter Italian architect and designer Carlo Ratti's latest creation -- a shiny metal canopy that can be used to create micro-climates in outdoor areas by controlling light and shade. The roof of the canopy is made up of round mirrors, [...]

- speculative - analyze design constraints from the beginning - forecast of where it might go - how can you bend it - complexity theory - emergence BITCOIN RESOURCES ON WEB (CLASS PORTAL) www.loop.net ? HOMEWORK - pull imagery (water/people) - hydro/aqua pura/hydro pur

:: Future economies > local to global economies ASSIGNED: Blockchain and cryptocurrency assigned

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PROPOSAL: THE CAROUSEL / SUN SET address in detail what you will do for your project and why Recalling the near past provides a certain level of comfort. NOSTALGIA also provides a soft landing form the fears of extinction. Once diagnosed as melancholy, which was a bona fide psychological malady in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nostalgia serves as a mental safety net. What better lifeline to throw a drowning soul, for example, than the progressive illusions produced by vintage advertisements, which during the Fifties were conceived to ease the postwar generation into the atomic age? It [...]

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS: this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project Arctic Sea Ice Sea ice is an important component of the climate system. A sea ice cover on the ocean changes the surface albedo, insulates the ocean from heat loss, and provides a barrier to the exchange of momentum and gases such as water vapor and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere. Salt ejected by growing sea ice alters the density structure and modifies the circulation of the ocean. Regional climate changes affect the [...]

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Planet Climate/environmental impacts Environmental justice Alternative energy   PRESENTATION PROJECT 1: DELIVERABLES - 15-20 minute presentation on your proposal - review of the site - your idea alt. energy approach (google earth) - visual simulation of proposed work - gains in watts i.e. watts level of energy offset could this work accomplish - CLIENT CONCERNS - RESOLUTION TO PROBLEM - INTRODUCTION WITH LAND ART

> techniques for digital intervention > data handling > studio work day

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS: this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project ICEBERG SERIES – This work is about the beauty to be found in apparently random natural forms. As in nature, my porcelain pots have an underling coded structure and logic. The algorithm used to generate these shapes has an inbuilt randomness, a ‘noise’ value actually and I am interested how similar this is to the erosion of icebergs. The natural structures have an underling logic that computer code can mimic so a different and [...]

:: communities > self-organization, networking > needs & outreach > social entreprenuerism Wind Scalability Drawing in tools you want to work with. examples of Sketchup industrial scale project for the University Lighting Africa (big picture of little sun) students as nodes as a way to distribute electricity what does the idea mean? how is it visualized? more than an energy producing source how do you spin the value of having a position where we are able to have advantage of the most sun need for drinking water? clean air / clean water WIND important to think about the distribution [...]

1>pgs 65-103, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, Ghosts > NREL tools PVWatts, interactive mapping > Land Art Generator Initiative Waste Land Film comments NOTES Alt-energy program sustainability carbon/ecological footprinting reosource/material usage equipment upgrades innovative scholarship initiatives photo voltaic cells generate electricity from the sun land art generator initiative VISIT WEBSITE (landartgenerrator.org) speculative and conceptual designs TESLA solar roof tiles (designed to look like a standard roof) transparent panels PV Watts Calculator Kilowatt Meter Usage NREL SAM (for management of energy) hydrokinetic energy HOMEWORK google earth flyover of DU campus mapping tools

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:: design strategies > green design / materials > technical nutrients > biomimetic designs > resource use, reuse > visualization/design/prototyping tools ASSIGNED: DU alt-energy redux Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of catadores — or garbage pickers. The catadores are the ultimate marginalized population; unemployed in any traditional sense of the word, they resort to picking [...]

:: tools overview & resources > classes of tools for sustainability intervention, footprinting, surveillance, measurement and design > citizen science > open source, creative commons, shareware/freeware > software / hardware > predictive design tools > visualization -> new sensoria The Science of Cities Geoffrey West - SFI Community Lecture USAGE computer charging time computer usage time phone charging time phone using time consumption/usage water usage trash emptied

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS: this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project LUMIERE FESTIVAL - January 18-21 Lumiere is the UK's largest light festival. The festival, produced by London-based creative company Artichoke, debuted in Durham in 2009. The festival was part inspired by the Fête des lumières in Lyon. Hosted in winter time, and free to attend, the festival typically comprises a number of light art-installations, as well as illuminating iconic buildings and locations. PROGRESS AND PROCESS: this section should include in-progress images of projects and [...]

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LECTURE: 1/11/17 : time & scale > environmental and sustainability footprinting > lifecycles, ecologies & circular economies > pre-cognition ASSIGNED: footprint of electronics, media and energy consumption Reporting to be entered weekly in your online sketchbook http://professor.biotica.org/edpx3350/schedule.html http://professor.biotica.org/edpx3350/edpx3350_syllabus_w18.pdf email: tweaver2@du.edu - GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK - data sampling link on their website. - EXPLORE THE DATA TAB - LAND TYPES DATA - EPA - carbon offset - purchase renewable energy - carbon-economy - water more valuable than gasoline - FUTURE WATER CONSUMPTION HOMEWORK: 1/11/17 - USE FOOTPRINT TOOLS - MAKE DIARY ENTRY FOR USAGE - inventory of what you have [...]

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS:  this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project https://climate.nasa.gov https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Arapaho_Glacier&params=40_01_24_N_105_38_52_W_region:US-CO_type:glacier https://www.reynoldsam.com/denver/ ARAPAHO GLACIER MELT, COLORADO (1898-2003) Arapaho Glacier has shrunk dramatically since it was photographed in 1898. Measurements collected since 1960 suggest the glacier has thinned by at least 40 meters since then; thinning between 1898 and 1960 is unknown but is probably considerably greater than 40 meters. Arapahoe is also considered a cirque glacier because of the mountain basin it sits in. Arapaho is the largest glacier in Colorado, but it [...]

The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system. The accounts contrast the biologically productive area people use for their consumption to the biologically productive area available within a region or the world (biocapacity). In short, it is a measure of human impact on Earth's ecosystem and reveals the dependence of the human economy on natural capital. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zoqCaScqKDqdX9QfpRj0vwax8ZbcLp9kxx3_OMTrQ2s/edit?usp=sharing

LECTURE: 1/9/17 :: background & platform of the sustainability movement/paradigm :: the Anthropocene, definition, history, implications > environmental & human rights movements > creative interventions > ecology / equity / economy / education > civil society & the sustainability paradigm > digital design/networking impact > organization, institutionalization, communities, dissemination > prediction/simulation,  visualization, meta-data http://professor.biotica.org/edpx3350/schedule.html http://professor.biotica.org/edpx3350/edpx3350_syllabus_w18.pdf email: tweaver2@du.edu HOMEWORK: 1/9/17 - SEND BLOG URL - ORDER BOOKS - READ/SIGN SYLLABUS - READINGS (look at footprinting tools, ways to look at consumption) - TAKE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT - DOWNLOAD GOOGLE EARTH

PROPOSAL: GLOBAL WARMING address in detail what you will do for your project and why SUPER OBJECT: AT THE INTERSECTION OF CRAFT AND TECHNOLOGY. Interactive cultural artifact meets mass production. The industrial revolution brought GLORY to the machine-made, mass-produced and manufactured object. With that, came the loss of aura and authenticity that is often associated with sensoria. The societal need for mass production was in response to the desire to ‘bring things closer’ and overcome the uniqueness of reality, by replacing individuality with sameness. Benjamin would argue that the loss of original artifact causes the destruction of aura, shattering [...]

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS: this section should include ideas, quotes, snippets of readings, embedded videos, inspirational images, links related to the course or a current assignment/project I've been working A LOT lately. More than I ever like to or want to. So much of my time is spent on my devices. Phone calls. Email. Texting. Tweeting. Blogging. Reading. Everything. Sooooo tired of the glowing box. It snatched my soul. I spend more hours awake than asleep. I spend more awake hours working than living life. Hours spent hunched over, looking down. I found this image from artist Bob Winkler's UNL dorm room [...]