Oceanic Imaginaries
How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean?
How would be the kitchen appliancses in the near future ?
What kind of machines will we have next to the coffee and the toaster?
Would we have these yet?
We wanted to speculate on this and other questions during the Oceanic Imagenaries Studium Generale.
Seawater is rich in minerals which have market interest. With the large demand of salt in many geographical areas, producing salt. The most widely applied and commercially available technologies for sea water desalination can be divided in two types: membrane processes and thermal processes.
During the workshop at Studium Generale we will think together and will try to assume and design future domestic machinery. How would be our kitchen in 50/60 years ? Due to water sea level rising will we have a ‘desalination machine’ at home? Will the refrigerator still be necessary ?
Envisioning an Underwater World
During this workshop, workshop chef and teacher Asia Komarova with engineer and artist Mauricio van der Maesen de Sombreff and the student participants imagine an underwater world, after sea level rise and global heat. What remains? Where are we going? How will we live? And what does sustainability mean when there are few resources left. We learn to think critically about the future of our homes, our food and our relationships (human and non-human). In the morning we dwell on these topics. For lunch we cook with ingredients from the sea. In the afternoon we build our own desalination machine together.
