More GigaPan

I posted earlier about gigapans, and the video above is about there use in an education setting. If you explore their website you can find many other uses, apart from spending hours exploring a spice shop in Turkey, of gigapans in schools, universities and their use in environmental studies.

Mobile Research Station - Simon Faithfull

Mobile Research Station no.1
2009, SKULPTURENPARK BERLIN_ZENTRUM
In a wilderness at the heart of Berlin a strange apparition has landed. Mobile Research Station no.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster. Using a standard building-waste container as its basis, the station nevertheless forms a luxurious designer-pod provided for an eccentric set of researchers. Rather than researching the frozen wastes of Antarctica or the moons of Saturn, the invited artist/researchers have begun their investigation into the surrounding wilderness and urban zones of uncertainty that still lie at the centre of Berlin. There initial findings and questions can be found in this blog as and when they happen.

Simon Faithfull's Mobile Research Station

Looking to the Future

An issue with many community based projects is accessing equipment, in this case there are many tools that would be useful to help develop the ideas, computers, science equipment, sound recording and many other useful items. These are available but often tied to a particular building and accessing them can be time consuming and bureaucratic, what we need is a mobile arts lab. Rather than each community project having to find equipment or fund raise to by it, why not just call the mobile arts lab. So as side project I am going to look into the possibilities of how this could be set up and funded , as well as post examples of others looking into similar solutions.

Mapping Dargaville High School

These images are from students work developed as part of Artists in Schools Programme a few years ago. They are some of the ways we looked at exploring the School through colour and found letters.

Moss Maps - Nina Katchadourian

Daniel Kish - No Sight, No Limits

A TEDx talk about research teaching blind people to see through echolocation techniques. 

Project Overview

Below is a Prezi, which is a presentation programme. The Otari Prezi is to help see how the project could develop and allows bits to be added and changed as the project develops.
You can use the arrow buttons on your keyboard to advance through the presentation or just click and zoom in to different bits.

Otari - Wilton's Bush Reserve on Prezi