Delta
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Svein Petter Knudsen
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The text outlines an artistic research and development project that investigates Open Source and Open Hardware systems as artistic, technological, and pedagogical tools. Positioned at the intersection of artistic practice, technological development, and critical reflection on contemporary production culture, the project explores how open, accessible, and repairable machines can expand design methodologies and challenge proprietary production structures. Central to the research is the act of building as a form of knowledge production, fostering embodied technological understanding and user agency. With a strong ecological, social, and pedagogical sustainability ambition, the project proposes alternative, locally situated production models. A key outcome is the development of a large-scale, open delta-based 3D printer for sustainable materials, enabling artistic exploration at human and architectural scales.
Plant friend
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Elisabeth Haaland Sund, Elen Haksø, Kari Bjerke Gjærde, Vivian Thonstad Moe
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A plant pet, a plant friend. Ambient technology, present for company.
The concept promotes interaction and physical activity through responsive expressions on the digital MicroBit display.
Every plant have their own individual characteristics. Some of them are shy and some will be more expressive. Select your favourite type, with your preferred plant personality. You will have to give it a name and take care of it in your home, office space, in your living room or wherever it’s suitable. The plant is a “robot”, with a display screen. Here you can read the plant’s “feelings” with it’s expressive face. You will notice when it’s thirsty, needs nutrition or when it expresses its need for attention. In return you will have a good companion, always ready for interaction.
This is an open source project encouraging people to make it themselves. A concept tailored for interaction between people in isolation or distance relationships.