diff --git a/docs/projects/archiving_new_naturals.md b/docs/projects/archiving_new_naturals.md index 330b74d91993cb86dad2172921517dbaed064a6a..592039e9d571df1d1b05bb37cbfdc2e9aec4e045 100644 --- a/docs/projects/archiving_new_naturals.md +++ b/docs/projects/archiving_new_naturals.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ##towards a context-aware global material commons: what's in *your* local archive? -*Building a local archive, Loes Bogers, 2020* +*Crafted material samples, Loes Bogers, 2020* **The goal of this project was to explore and develop simple methods for open archiving of socalled "new naturals"\*. The outcomes are developed to work toward a collaborative, global - but context-aware - material archive....** @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The outcomes of the selection are threefold: 1) a number of documentation tools Making material samples myself was the core part of the research process. It required making these (and actually many more) recipes, and trying to craft different physical forms to arrive at the important questions that need to be asked and documented. Questions such as: when do you demould a bioplastic? How long does it take before it reached its final form and doesn't shrink anymore? Where does this recipe even come from? What makes a material sustainable? If it is sustainable, what other arguments might there be that make a material contested or controversial to use? -As a result of that process of making, wondering and questioning, [a selection of 24 foundational recipes](../outcomes/24_core_recipes/) is documented here, showing the research process, but also allowing anyone to start a physical sample archive with "new natural" materials. All these materials are easily and harmlessly absorbed by nature within 90 days and/or can be turned into compost, *without* controlled conditions assuming industrial facilities. And/or the material can be re-used with no or little additional resources. Biodegradability as a sustainability label is too often used to greenwash e.g. disposable packaging materials, so these criteria were chosen as point of departure. +As a result of that process of making, wondering and questioning, [**a selection of 24 foundational recipes**](../outcomes/24_core_recipes/) is documented here, showing the research process, but also allowing anyone to start a physical sample archive with "new natural" materials. All these materials are easily and harmlessly absorbed by nature within 90 days and/or can be turned into compost, *without* controlled conditions assuming industrial facilities. And/or the material can be re-used with no or little additional resources. Biodegradability as a sustainability label is too often used to greenwash e.g. disposable packaging materials, so these criteria were chosen as point of departure. Three additional criteria were used to make the selection: it should be based on local abundance (ingredients sourced and/or produced around my location. Secondly, it should include a range of techniques, and lastly, these techniques should result in a variety of physical forms to accommodate makers and designers from different fields from product design as well as textiles and fashion. @@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ Secondly, the selection of 24 *techniques* is made based on the extent to which ###3. A features wishlist for an online materials repository -[The design brief for an imagined online archiving system](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YRHikbOnj0WLbVhc2BELcTUBk30rFFGOpYzF1ra7Jp4/edit?usp=sharing) -suggests a system for a context-aware, collaborative materials database. Developing such a system is outside the scope of this project, and connecting to existing initiatives may be a better avenue to explore. The design of the system proposed here: +I compiled [**a features wishlist**](../outcomes/features_wishlist) for online material archiving systems, which I document and explain in the form of a mock-up and a walkthrough. It holds suggestions for a more context-aware, collaborative materials database. Developing such a system is outside the scope of this project, and connecting to existing initiatives may be a better avenue to explore. The design of the system proposed here: - **enables peer feedback**, ratings and constructive criticism - its logics of organisation and additional required fields can promote and **add a critical angle on the way we consider new naturals** as material alternatives. It allows users to filter on the technical and sensorial properties as well as constituent ingredients *and* other tags pulled from the fields of the recipe and ingredient forms. The questions suggested can lead to considerations and tags that may all become relevant filtering criteria: such as *local abundance* in your area. Most *successful recipes*, or *most contested* ones that could be further researched. @@ -89,7 +88,7 @@ Online repositories can facilitate communities of material explorers - from novi - **realising the online database** further with a designer and developer or connecting to existing initiatives (preferred) - research and/or develop and document **methods for DIY material testing**, like testing tensile strength, chemical resistance etc. -- create well-researched **ingredient pages** for all the ingredients used (for the moment only the entry for [glycerine](../../files/example_glycerine/) is there as an example). +- create well-researched **ingredient pages** for all the ingredients used (for the moment only the entry for [**glycerine**](../../files/example_glycerine/) is there as an example). - possibly add a **section for open-source DIY tools** for fabrication - **further testing of the formats as tools for learning** in higher education and fabricademy, gathering peer feedback from peers diff --git a/docs/projects/outcomes/platform_proposal.md b/docs/projects/outcomes/features_wishlist.md similarity index 75% rename from docs/projects/outcomes/platform_proposal.md rename to docs/projects/outcomes/features_wishlist.md index 45a0db0a159693057b7a922305f2ce542364854d..a7ac07a2f81b59b6fa6ee4cd7cb40ed6da3b8ada 100644 --- a/docs/projects/outcomes/platform_proposal.md +++ b/docs/projects/outcomes/features_wishlist.md @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ -#Proposal for open online archiving +#Features wishlist for material archives -The slideshow below is a mock-up of an imagined online archive to rethink the way we might archive new naturals in a context-aware, collaborative way. In many ways, the proposal follows the form and functions the same way other content management systems allow users to contribute. So there is nothing new there, it is the point that it looks familiar and recognizable as such. +The slideshow at the bottom of this page is a mock-up of an imagined online archive to rethink the way we might archive new naturals in a context-aware, collaborative way. In many ways, the proposal follows the form and functions the same way other content management systems allow users to contribute. So there is nothing new there, it is the point that it looks familiar and recognizable as such. To explain, I've created a walk-through video. +<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0jvTqtBk5YM" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSOITFNlLhDRTC-h4-3g8u4V4mp2aVy5ONBdhKwN_7VJFTJSQW5lZD5VXOjcPAiExnz6gH1xD5-qoX1/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="600" height="629" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe> +*Walkthrough of the features wishlist. Loes Bogers, 2020* +##Summary **Meaningful filtering and correlating with additional fields** @@ -23,4 +25,7 @@ Developing a working database was outside the scope of this project, and connect The suggested features may be included in existing archives (preferred) or be a starting point for a new initiative. Do get in touch if you are are working on material archiving and would like to explore this further! l[dot]bogers[at]hva[dot]nl +<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSOITFNlLhDRTC-h4-3g8u4V4mp2aVy5ONBdhKwN_7VJFTJSQW5lZD5VXOjcPAiExnz6gH1xD5-qoX1/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="600" height="629" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe> + +