Kerns

Interactive Concept - Theoretical Research

Data collection is omnipresent nowadays. Data are represented most of the time on screens because the data themselves are collected via connected devices.Our approach is to collect data in a different way. We want to get a physical mark of the collected data. One of the most common hikers habit is to collect a stone from a hike. Those stones are a sentimental mark referring to a place, a view, a journey, memories, emotions. Isn’t a stone the oldest data storage of our planet ?

How is it done ?

The hiker collect a stone, take it back home and 3D scans it. Then, using a 3D script, the user can model the 3D object and print it. The 3D printed structure supporting the stone is processed and designed to match perfectly the latest and the upcoming stone. The sticks are representing the GPS coordinates where the user picked the stone. The 3D laser cut carton structure imprisoning the stone is processed to match perfectly the whole stone. The carton shapes are representing the GPS coordinates where the found has been found and remind the contour lines of a mountain on a map. We want to structures stones in a modular way. The idea of empty spaces waiting for smoothen to get stored don’t interest us. We decided to make the storage grow as the stones are collected.

Project realised with Pietro Alberti & Helène Portier during a one week Workshop with Jussi Ängeslevä at ECAL

2015