Open_Sailing

Open_Sailing is an international community trying to develop the International_Ocean_Station as an open-source project, developing hardware and software to enable intelligent human activities at sea.

The project Open_Sailing presented at V2_'s Test_Lab: What Crisis?!, resembles a floating architecture acting like an organism reacting and adjusting to its environment, and a laboratory for techno-social experiments: where it aims to be a new lifestyle for the post-disaster. Not an experiment in the playful way, but experiment in survival 'after' the cataclysm. Designed using DIY technologies, its 40m2s houses and feeds four inhabitants through plug-in units and energy-generating components. Open_Sailing is developed by a growing international team.

Part of the biotechnological research journey that informed Cesar Harada, and made the project all the more relevant, is a compiled map system that visualizes areas of looming crisis: overpopulation, tsunami risk, violent conflict, nuclear fallout, pandemics, global warming, etc.

Open_Sailing won the Sustainable Arts Award 2009.