Digging into [[research:ralph_erskine|]] arctic circle work... cultural and environmental issues more complicated than drawings suggest - see essay on site history: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffpages/uploads/enl333/Marcus_2011.pdf Notes on [[interplanetary podcast]] for [[research:nexusaurora|]]: //Imagines an industrial base providing a foundry for materials to future interplanetary settlers - arguing tourism alone as an economy is unrealistic. Aspires to a communitarian society acknowledging the joint role of independent cities and the state, with the recognition that settlers can enjoy rights to welfare through a Martian version of UBI that could include shelter, food and air. Living proposals that 'reject the concept of cities built of tunnels and underground habitation' and hold on to the value of sunlight and walking in community spaces.// --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2021/03/15 23:28// Need to compile [[workshop tools]] for online event - drawing vs note taking - what's the online version of StoryCubes? Mars Rover on the move: https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sounds-of-perseverance-mars-rover-driving-sol-16-16-minutes Strangely beautiful --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2021/03/17 23:17// New project commences - [[:Hafod]] - how to salvage an uninsulated, leaking timber frame house? Enquiy from [[Orb2]] project designers - spherical LEO habitat --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2021/03/21 20:57// 'I have a solution but it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum!' https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/15509225 and https://unusualplaces.org/bolwoningen-neighborhood-of-spherical-homes/ Future interview for podcast? https://sonet-hub.com/ --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2021/03/22 15:08// Discussion about One Planet City project by Liam Young with [[KSR]] and [[Holly Jean Buck]]... notes **Holly Buck** managed retreat - as choice, without defeat - invites us to speculate about what the choice might look like climate restoration? process instead of destination land return **KSR** a design subset of utopian sf - fiction, theory + art pattern language precursor - against the modernist project of corbusier leo wilson's half earth project wilderness as an opportunity for a walkabout insists on the global - human + biosphere boundaries anthropocene wilderness we're all indigenous to now thought experiment as an analogy for the Paris agreement ideas as reverse of trickle down concept - strategy from below, details from expertise how to pay for it? capital won't pay for it because it goes to highest rate of return quantative easing at point of carbon reduction / capture fiction as time travel and telepathy **LY ** year long celebration - 7000 languages - city as constant carnival --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2021/03/30 19:06//