Waterwheel Dossier Oswash English

Ark0 & OSWASH Post-Rsidency Waterweel Water Symposium 2014
Practice to theory and viceversa. Ark0 and the OSWASH* workshop residency. *(Open
Source Washing Machine)
martes 11 de marzo de 14
Session n7
Activism, art and sciences 19 March 2014. 9:00am European Time
ABSTRACT
Meeting to discuss the politics, ecological, social implications of hand-washing clothes in the world How it is possible to re-think the technological and sociological ways we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, cultural and environemental aspects ? Is it possible to create new modes, new technologies, new ways to liberate people in this task, in a consciousness of sustainable developpement and respect of the natural and human environment ? Is it possible to bring solutions in some isolated and poor communities for people using soap and washing by hand cloths in rivers and water sources? How to make people thing about the water resources and the importance to take care of this vital element?
Who is online for this meeting on the TAP ?

Ark0, OSWASH and The Internet of Things.
http://www.oswash.org , http://ark0.tumblr.com http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/
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Jean-Nol Montagn. Media artist, founder of Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif in Paris www.craslab.org, medialab dedicated to interactive art. !Founder of Estive Numerique/Digital Peak festival, founder of Nicelab, hackerspace in Nice, France.! He is part of the Bricolabs network. Paula Vlez. Media_video artist, filmmaker, vj, involved in cultural. social and enviromental projects. Engaged with a project in the caribean colombian coast ; a green pilot house cultural center built with bioconstruction methods, working on a documentary film in Colombia. She makes part of networks involving arts, hackerspaces, independent collectives and labs from south america. Makes part of the Bricolabs network. Rob van Kranenburg wrote The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID, Network Notebooks 02, Institute of Network Cultures. He is co-founder of bricolabs and the founder of Council. Together with Christian Nold he published Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World. He currently works as Community Manager at the EU Project Sociotal.He is consultant to IoT China, Shanghai 2014.
What is
OSWASH
It is a washing machines open source project to research about the ways we wash clothes around the world and to build prototypes and solutions under anti-copyright licence
Context of the OSWASH project ?

- Most people on the world washes clothes by hand.
- Water sources, rivers, lakes are the most common enviroments where washing by hand happens.
- It's a huge amount of time for kids and women, the most involved. Men as well are affected.
- Access to water is difficult. It should be filtered and re-used
- Chemicals are used, toxic for the hands, the body and the water springs
-There is not an action taken in general for the gray water production and how it pollute rivers.
- Carring heavy wet clothes home
- In most of the places there is no need of great technologies...
... but where art and crafts still alive, there is a posibility to find out different systems to make a change for this situation.
- It also can be thinking to work collectivilly to avoid pollution in rivers. But what people will do if a machine replace their work?
- Can it be that the solution is to believe that each family in the world should acquire an industrial western style washing machine ?
NO WAY! It is a non sense idea!
-Problems of water (in & out) -Problem of electricity -Problem of money

OSWASH
(Open Source Washing Machines)
This project aims to re-think the technological, sociological and ecological aspects related to how to wash clothes all around the world. Being aware of the different cases for each context. Taking in account the economical, cultural and environnemental situations. Is it possible to re-think the technics facing each situation? Is it possible to propose new and creative ways of washing clothes no matter how weird it looks at the begining? Is it possible to make use of new technologies in certain cases, where open source hardwares and softwares apply?
YES, well, we think it is possible!
OSWASH aim to define :

-a panel of technologies -a panel of materials for the different technologies -a panel of DIY and ecological detergents -a panel of people/knowledge to build prototypes (everywhere) and test them into the adapted contexts -a panel of methods for DIY /dissemination workshops -a panel of people to give the first dissemination workshops
WASHING = agitating water + detergents + clothes...

-rotating systems ? -vibrating systems -ultrasonic systems ? -shocking systems ? -brushing systems ? -bubbling systems ? Other ideas -uv light systems ? -bacterial systems ? ... ? How to motivate ingeneering/design/biology schools to work on some new concepts ?
MATERIALS.. ...DIY water friendly Soaps...

- How to build soaps and detergents with natural products, plants and trees ?
-How to grow soap plants and trees ?
- How to manage, clean and recycle water?
Goals to do in this research and practical process : -global inventory of soap plants -bibliography on the subject
3 prototypes were built in Feb 2009: -two for fun: * sound machine *dancing floor machine - one possible for the project: *cycle bamboo solar machine
2 loudspeakers + amp+ computer with Pure Data
First prototyping workshop school of art in France
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Second workshop, Gent, Belgium, 2010. with Timelab Fablab

Building a real size prototype of a wind washing machine 100% recycled parts
In February 2014, we have organized a residency at Orleans, France. Before the Symposium.
What was the residence about?

http://oswash.org http://ark0.tumblr.com
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Three people exchanged their perspectives from three different projects engaged with water, ecologie, design, technologie and arts. A two weeks Workshop was organized to support the research and prototype developpement for 'open source washing machines'. http://oswash.org http://ark0.tumblr.com
How to implicate people from developped and non developped countries ? How to create bonds between people without following some of usual bad ONG practices?
How self-organization model and technological selfsufficiency will be crucial in the coming years, when the effects of the energy crisis/climate profoundly affect civilization?
Waste, soaps, chimicals are permanetely throwned to the ground. The soil can not filter all the toxics, it gets into the deep waters, then the rivers and the ocean.
Main ideas and goals for the workshop:
1.
Documentation and research on water and washing machines: a. Starting the botanical-chemical inventory (wikipediastyle, or directly into wikipedia, better) of plants with saponins and other mixes for washing-filtrering water. b. Documentation for future publishing, fundings, exhibition ( posters, flyers, cartels, press release) c. Educative workshop with young scholars or students with local children in Orlans. Such as: How to make soap with recycled edible vegetal oil and ashes.
2. Hands on the open source washing machine:

a. Building model machines with recycled elements (washing machines technologies: bubbles, brushes, solar, ultrasound, etc) ready to be exhibited in any "oswash exhibition", and solid for transportation reasons (sent by post).! b. Building 2 prototypes in real size or bigger scale than the models: one for individual washing machine (5 kg clothes), one for collective machine ( 10 to 16 kg clothes). (in this case we will need different tools and heavyest materials, it will depend on the budget we found in some way, even if materials will be recycled parts of cars)!
3. Two or three day's Seminar on open products in the

context of Internet of Things:! ! The audience will be invited to brainstorming and have as outcome some kind of text manifesto or collaborative poem.!
We want to organize workshops in situ ! Please contact us : oswash{ ]craslab(dot)org

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Ark0 & OSWASH Post-Rsidency Waterweel Water Symposium 2014

Who is online for this meeting on the TAP ?

Context of the OSWASH project ?

- Access to water is difficult. It should be filtered and re-used

- Carring heavy wet clothes home

- In most of the places there is no need of great technologies...

NO WAY! It is a non sense idea!

-Problems of water (in & out) -Problem of electricity -Problem of money

(Open Source Washing Machines)

YES, well, we think it is possible!

OSWASH aim to define :

WASHING = agitating water + detergents + clothes...

MATERIALS.. ...DIY water friendly Soaps...

-How to grow soap plants and trees ?

- How to manage, clean and recycle water?

2 loudspeakers + amp+ computer with Pure Data

First prototyping workshop school of art in France

Second workshop, Gent, Belgium, 2010. with Timelab Fablab

What was the residence about?

Main ideas and goals for the workshop:

2. Hands on the open source washing machine:

3. Two or three day's Seminar on open products in the

We want to organize workshops in situ ! Please contact us : oswash{ ]craslab(dot)org

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