We are building a floating architecture that evolves like a living organism: fluid, pre-broken, reconfigurable, sustainable, pluggable, organic and instinctive. Open_Sailing aims to design an attractive technological lifestyle to overcome any possible natural or man-made disaster, stimulating people’s ingenuity and sense of solidarity. We need to collectively invent and spread realistic, bootstrapping DIY-technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent how we inhabit the blue planet.

We already have an International Space Station, we need an International_Ocean_Station; there is so much to discover in our oceans. This first prototype was designed in the "Center for the Study and Practice of Survival Technics" in the submarine base of Lorient, France; constructed in Area10 art centre, South London; shipped across the North Sea, to be presented at the ARS Electronica festival in Linz Austria as the 'next great idea'. On 9 September we set sail, drifting down the Danube River into the Black Sea. Many architectural, computational, social, biological and culinary experiments will be carried out on the journey, developing ideas, software and hardware designs for the future International_Ocean_Station. Join the journey!

For more information, visit the Open_Sailing website.

Cesar Herada
+44 2032861646
contact@cesarharada.com
www.cesarharada.com