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Science Walden: Exploring the Convergence of Environmental Technologies with Design and Art
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 9, Iss 1, p 35 (2016), SUSTAINABILITY(9): 1, Sustainability; Volume 9; Issue 1; Pages: 35
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2016.
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Abstract
- Science Walden, which is inspired by two prominent literary works, namely, Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) and Walden Two by Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904–1990), is aimed at establishing a community that embodies humanistic values while embracing scientific advancement to produce renewable energy and water sources. This study attempts to capitalize on feces standard money (FSM) and artistic collaboration between scientists and artists as a means of achieving the forms of life depicted in Walden and Walden Two. On our campus, we designed and built a pavilion that serves as a laboratory where scientific advantages, design, and art are merged. In the pavilion, feces are processed in reactors and facilities for sustainable energy production, and rainwater is harvested and treated for use in daily life. Our application of design and art contributes to easing interaction between the general public and scientists because it visualizes an ambiguous theory and concretizes it into an understandable image.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Theory of Forms
Geography, Planning and Development
Water source
TJ807-830
Pavilion
feces standard money (FSM)
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Humanism
TD194-195
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
GE1-350
collaboration of science &
art
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
collaboration of science & art
sustainableenergy production
0104 chemical sciences
Sustainable energy
Environmental sciences
Aesthetics
sustainable energy production
Convergence (relationship)
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9cb984771e46738127ec18438b164e0f