River Water – The CSPA

Proposals for creative art+science, participatory and open environmental education

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Pixelache Helsinki, a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism have just posted ideas for art+science, participatory and open environmental education development:

Create new educational materials with participants, using creative participatory methods, for example using â€˜sprintâ€™ model, i.e. doing things fast, together, during the 2-3 days camps organised by trilateral environmental NGOs.
Offer creative art-science workshops in cooperation with trilateral environmental NGOs, based on shared-interests, for example ecological, river-water basin, agriculture and renewable energy issues, etc.
Educational training/mentorship for Environmental NGOs in Gulf of Finland / Baltic Sea Region to learn more about Open -Data, -Education, -Sustainability, and -GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums, ie. Culture)
Make accessible previously-made educational materials in digital formats, including graphics, diagrams, texts, and other data by negotiating with makers/copyright holders. This can be a selection from over a period of years, or a particular project or publication. Can be done in stages, testing & getting feedback in the process of what is useful and needed.
Contribute media (photos, videos, audio interviews and commentary) to commons-oriented repositories which promote open access, sharing and download of media materials.
Investigate & implement peer-to-peer ecologically sustainable ICT solutions for sharing materials.

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jakub szczesny: water purification island

jakub szczesny of the collectiveÂ centrala designed this floating island where visitors can purify water
through exercising. the installation located on the vistula riverside is part of theÂ synchronicity architectural
and arts festival in warsaw.

‘Iâ€™ve proposed a systematic approach: a water treatment plant powered by human muscles by
warsaw inhabitants performing fitness exercises and pumping poluted river water via kinetic pumps
integrated in the fitness machines to four filters and four tanks to a fountain basin at the very end
of the cycle. the whole installation is supposed to perform a role of a propaganda tool changing
the consciousness of warsawers by showing the efficiency of human action in the process of
puryfing the waters of their river. whatâ€™s meaningful, is the fact, that many poles, even after twenty years
of liberalization, still donâ€™t believe in their own potential as individuals or members of commuities,
in positively changing their life environment.’ -Â jakub szczesny

more information and image can be foundÂ here.