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- 3. Pioneer scientists “must have a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.” Max Planck, the father of Quantum Theory
- 4. “I use Art like a vessel to investigate Science.” Fabian Oefner
- 5. For this experiment, Oefner poured water into a black reservoir. With the aid of a syringe, he then added small drops of oil onto the water surface. https://fabianoefner.com/
- 6. Upon contact with the water, the oil started to expand and form into magnificent structures. Some of them seem to look like stars exploding, others look like a photograph of the iris. https://fabianoefner.com/
- 7. The various colours result from the reflection and refraction of light, as it passes through the oil film and back into the camera lens.
- 8. Depending on how thick the oil film is, the colours change from blue, green to red, until finally they disappear again.
- 12. Nature’s Drawings is Oefner's exploration of the boundaries between art and science.
- 13. It’s a circular arrangement of eight different experiments, which create drawings driven by chemical and physical processes.
- 14. Electrical current shapes into fractal patterns, rusting iron under magnetic influence generates delicate structures and gun powder burns sound waves into paper.
- 15. All experiments are connected in a way that one experiment triggers the next one until the full circle of works is completed, creating eight unique drawings in the process.
- 25. Creative Use of Recycled Materials
- 26. Spanish designer Alvaro Catalan de Ocon has worked with artisans in Colombia, Chile, Japan, and Ethiopia to produce the collaborative lamps that incorporate recycled PET bottles. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/fiber-and-pet-plastic-lamps/
- 27. This work involved collaboration with eight Yolngu weavers from Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/fiber-and-pet-plastic-lamps/
- 32. Yuko Nishikawa - Beans, Pinecones, Umbrellas is my expression of joy through mobiles whose wonky colourful dots sway and giggle as we walk and stir the air around them. https://www.yukonishikawa.com/
- 33. These airy mobiles, in colours that remind me of wool yarn samples, are made with paper pulp clay which I formulated by recycling used packages, my design sketches and old diaries.
- 34. These paper cookies are connected to metal arms with loops and hooks so that they can be unassembled and recycled back into paper clay again.
- 35. I mixed paper pulp the same way I would mix paints. I blended blue paper pulp and red paper pulp, and a bit of yellow paper pulp to make a muted purple paper clay. I combined them at their different blended stages too to make varying textures and colour effects.
- 36. Mushy pulps would make homogeneous colours, while crumbly pulps would have a stippled effect. Finely blended pulps would become a smoother surface when dry, while coarser pulps would become bumpier like oatmeal cookies.
- 37. Before any of these mobiles were materialised, I made an acrylic painting on paper to visualise the colours and the feeling these mobiles would project. This image became a reminder of my initial abstract idea for the mobiles while I was building them.
- 38. Now looking back to this painting and, especially with how the texture and the forms turned out, I’m quite happy. These mobiles look like the painting came alive.
- 45. Innovative Design Based on Biomimicry
- 46. “When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more” Janine Benyus
- 47. “How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature” Michael Pawlyn
- 50. Origami, Transformable Materials and Space Exploration
- 51. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using Origami as inspiration for a number of unique spacecraft designs. Besides being aesthetically beautiful, it addresses a problem faced by JPL engineers: how do you pack the greatest amount of spacecraft into the smallest volume possible? (JPL, 2017)
- 56. Renewable Energy for Australia
- 61. Technology, Innovation and Human Performance
- 62. “Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow. It’s about accelerating toward it” Tinker Hatfield
- 64. The magic of Rikke's materials is that each substance is totally unique, but they're all created from only a handful of bases (agar, gelatin, casein or starch) and additions (natural dyes and food wastes).
- 65. AGAR: (1) coffee grounds (2) carrot juice/eggshells/ cork (3) beetroot dye/onion peel dye (4) food colouring/eggshells (5) eggshells
- 66. AGAR FOAM: (6) mushroom dye (7) mushroom dye GELATIN: (8) blue spirulina (9) beetroot dye/ food colouring (10) red cabbage dye (11) beetroot dye (12) flower dye/ turmeric
- 67. GELATIN FOAM: (13) flower dye/spirulina (14) red cabbage/turmeric CASEIN: (15) spirulina/ onion peel dye (16) spirulina/food colouring (17) blue spirulina
- 68. CORNSTARCH: (18) chilli flakes (19) turmeric (20) turmeric POTATO STARCH: (21) experiment waste (22) lavender
- 73. The Red Bull Surf Science project has the objective to develop and test technology in the harshest conditions possible. This technology testing has the goal of improving athlete performance.
- 79. Water Quality and Access
- 80. “Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in. There is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. But due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, every year millions of people, most of them children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene” (United Nations, 2018).
- 81. https://lifestraw.com/ At LifeStraw, we believe everyone deserves equitable access to safe drinking water. We design beautiful, simple, and functional products that provide the highest protection from unsafe water based on where and how they will be used.
- 86. “Why build houses with trees when forests are something we want to preserve? Why pay for electricity, water, and heat when all of it can be provided off-the-grid using existing materials and renewable resources like wind, rain, and solar?” (This is Colossal, 2015)
- 94. Developing an Assistive Technology Prototype
- 95. “Assistive technology is any device, system, or design used by individuals to perform functions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible” (Assistive Technology Australia, 2017).
- 97. https://www.designboom.com/design/lego-braille-bricks-for-visually-impaired-children-04-25-2019/
- 100. Otherlab is an engineering research and development laboratory based in San Francisco. They have created the world's most advanced industrial paper aeroplanes. The paper gliders that look like stealth fighters are capable of carrying more than one kilogram of supplies like blood and vaccines to those in need (Mashable, 2017).
- 105. “Using an app on their phone, the data surfers acquire while in the water becomes accessible in near real-time to the world-wide scientific community. But Smartfin is not only about the data. It is also an effort to connect surfers and their communities to larger issues affecting ocean health” (Smartfin, 2017).
- 108. At 16 years of age, Boyan Slat saw more plastic bags than fish when scuba diving in Greece. He thought: “Why can’t we just clean this up?” This question led him to research the plastic pollution problem for a school project. https://theoceancleanup.com
- 109. He learned about plastic accumulating in five large oceanic gyres, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. https://theoceancleanup.com
- 110. In 2012, Boyan Slat held a TEDx talk about how to rid the world’s oceans of plastic using technology. The video went viral, and the momentum that followed allowed him to drop out of school and found The Ocean Cleanup.
- 114. Permaculture
- 118. The Importance of Environmental Conservation
- 119. Joel Sartore is the founder of the Photo Ark, a groundbreaking effort to document species before they disappear—and to get people to care while there’s still time.
- 127. Using Mathematics to Create an Artwork
- 128. Art and mathematics. “One is the domain of emotional expression, passion and aesthetics. The other, a world of steely logic, precision and truth. And yet scratch the surface of these stereotypes and one discovers that the two worlds have much more in common than one might expect” (Marcus du Sautoy, 2016).