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Energy HarvestsClaiming Energy Leaks as Resource

In everyday city living, we are surrounded by waste products from our urban infrastructures – heat waste from air conditioners, light pollution emitted from shop windows, vibration caused by heavy traffic and the loud wails of sirens. But these structural leakages are, in essence, a multitude of free power outlets for anyone wishing to collect them, because light, noise, vibration and heat can all be turned back into usable energy.

Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests examines the practical as well as theoretical possibilities of an alternative, decentralized supply of energy by asking: How can citizens use these surplus energy supplies? What would local micro-power-networks, where free energy can be collected, distributed and exchanged, look like?

These questions are approached through different explorations: a set of harvesters that can be carried along, windmills installed at a metro station to collect streams of waste air, interviews with other thinkers and makers, workshops for building light pollution harvesters and instigate discussion, and DIY kits with instructions for everyone to make their own harvesters.

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With:
Hanspeter Kadel

At:
ÜberLebenskunst, House of World Cultures, Berlin
U10 / NGBK, Berlin
Energie = Arbeit, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin
Smart Urban Stage, Berlin
Visual Voltage Amplified, Felleshuset, Berlin
RIXC, Riga, Latvia. XI International festival for new media culture

Year:
2009 – 2011

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Events

8-28 June 2019Counter Cycling at Déjardiner, Galerie gr_und, Berlin. Tour on June 21. A project with Nina Blume
November 2 2018Presentation at Green Room Sessions, Podgorica, Montenegro
January 2018Politics of Design - an exhibition of the Design Department of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam at Kunstraum Potsdam.
June - October 2017Crops & Robbers – A Biopiracy Game. With Ruttikorn Vuttikorn at the International Garden Exhibition in Berlin (IGA).
May 22-27 2017From Micro to Macro and Back, the physics and metaphysics of_________________distance. Residency at the Bergen Center for Electronic Art, Norway as part of the Future DiverCities project.
March 1-7 2017Disaster Prevention workshop by HANDs project / Japan Foundation. Phang-Gna, Thailand
April 14-22 2016Seminar at the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
March 06 2016Presenting Out of Soil at Himmel und Erde, Kunst- und Kulturverein Alte Schule Baruth.
November 18 - 23 2015Stories from the Hills: Tales of the Lowland at La Fin des Cartes, Espace des Arts sans Frontières, Paris.
September 28 - October 1 2015Out of Soil at the Bhoomi Maati Maa: the Festival of Living Soil in New Delhi, India.
September 5 - November 1 2015Feather and Measure in collaboration with Alex Toland at Natural Affairs, QuadrArt Dornbirn, Austria.
June 2 2015Presentation at the SD Talk series, Media + Design dept., University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück
April 21-23 2015Out of Soil presented with prozessagenten at the International Week of Justice, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Berlin.
April 13 2015Energy Harvests presented at Checkpoint Salon of Bundezentrale für Politische Bildung.
February 19 2015Street Rights Map workshop with Henrik Lebuhn as part of the Community Now? symposium, Jewish Museum Berlin
October 9 + 16 2014Ideas from Nature - workshop with Biomimicry Germany e.V. at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
June 14 2014Urban Nature Street Rights – Workshop at Long Day of Urban Nature, Public Art Lab / Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin
June 8-13 2014Stories from the Hills: Tales of the Lowland presented at Dirt Dialogues, 20th World Congress of Soil Science, Jeju, Korea
November 2013Stories from the Hills: Tales of the Lowland. A project with Ruttikorn Vuttikorn in northern Thailand. Workshop and exhibition on November 29 at Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok
September 3 2013Connect the Plots: a workshop with environmental engineering students as part of the field work of the Institute for Ecology, Berlin University of Technology. With Alex R. Toland.
June 10 2013Street Rights Map workshop at the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University Berlin. With Ruttikorn Vuttikorn and Henrik Lebuhn.
May 24 - September 1 2013Garden Registry at Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good at the Chicago Cultural Center. With Amy Franceschini and David Lu.
January 08 2013Talk at Design Interaktiver Medien, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
November 27 2012Energy Harvests workshop at Shaking Science, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, NL
October 26 2012 - January 13 2013E.B. Station at ReGeneration New York Hall Of Science. With Amy Franceschini as Futurefarmers.
October 1 - 15 2012E.B. Station at Art, Environment, Action! SJDC, Parsons The New School for Design. With Amy Franceschini as Futurefarmers.
August 29 - November 25 2012Futurefarmers' Garden Registry is included in the Common Ground exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale. With Amy Franceschini and David Lu.
June 27 - July 3 2012Artist in residence at Colorado College. With Jon Cohrs.
June 15 - 25 2012Artist in residence at Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico. With Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers.
May 2 - 4 2012Plant-Aeronautics lecture at Integral Studies, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, campus Waiblingen.
February 16 - 18 2012Talk at Temporary Spaces – Air Castles and Smoke Clouds, University of the Arts Bremen, Germany
August 12 – September 08 2011Underground Currents at metro station Neukölln, Berlin. With Hanspeter Kadel
August 18 – 21 2011Energy Harvests Workshop and DIY Kits at ÜberLebenskunst, House of World Cultures, Berlin. With Hanspeter Kadel
June 16 - 26 2011Artist in residence at Timelab, Ghent, Belgium. reMarshing: Wastelands to Wetlands with Jon Cohrs
June 15 2011Talk at Transdigital Seminar 2011, Vooruit, Ghent
March through May 2011Co-teaching at Parsons - The New School for Design, NYC with Jon Cohrs
Food in the City Research Group, Eyebeam, Art + Technology Center, NYC
March 06 2011Beneath the Pavement: A Garden. Book release. Download PDF here.

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