This project is now archived and was part of DDW19
Event type
Exhibition
Location
Strijp-S
Klokgebouw | Hall 3
Klokgebouw 50
5617 AB
Inspiration: natural and obsolete systems
Aweigh is a biomimetic navigation system that uses the polarised property of light to position individuals. Drawing from ancient tools like the sextant, it functions independently from infrastructure and centralised control.
Ancient seafarers and desert ants alike use universally accessible skylight to organize, orient, and place themselves in the world. Aweigh is an open navigation system that learns from the past and from the microscopic to (re)position individuals within b
Variations: from tools to materials
Components: open-source and modifiable
Applications: mobility, literacy, and privacy
Use: blueprints and instruction manual
About Aweigh
The Aweigh team is a research collective of four designers and engineers, recently graduated from the Innovation Design Engineering program held jointly between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College. The group’s mission is to engage and direct discussions around the development of modern technologies through propositional and investigative explorations of computational systems, their logistics, and the often hidden ways they shape our reality.
Colofon
Samuel Iliffe
States Lee
Keren Zhang
Flora Weil
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