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Building a Giant Biodegradable Eel Trap
Food, Environment
Building a Giant Biodegradable Eel Trap
Food, Environment
Food, Environment
The Obligation to Prevent Animal Suffering
Environment, Health
The Obligation to Prevent Animal Suffering
Environment, Health
Environment, Health
Let's Talk About Women in STEM
Partnership, Impact
Let's Talk About Women in STEM
Partnership, Impact
Partnership, Impact
A Guide to Ethical Ink
Arts, Design
A Guide to Ethical Ink
Arts, Design
Arts, Design
An Illustrated Guide to Silvopasture
Environment, Food
An Illustrated Guide to Silvopasture
Environment, Food
Environment, Food
Living in a Mars Simulation
Partnership, Technology
Living in a Mars Simulation
Partnership, Technology
Partnership, Technology
Better Business: The Power of B Corps
Business, Impact
Better Business: The Power of B Corps
Business, Impact
Business, Impact
Unboxing Modern Beekeeping
Design, Environment
Unboxing Modern Beekeeping
Design, Environment
Design, Environment
Is Avril Lavigne Proof That AI Is Getting Smarter?
Arts, Technology
Is Avril Lavigne Proof That AI Is Getting Smarter?
Arts, Technology
Arts, Technology
Ask The Experts: The Truth About Sci-Fi (Part Two)
Arts, Technology
Ask The Experts: The Truth About Sci-Fi (Part Two)
Arts, Technology
Arts, Technology
Building Earthships and Transcending Trump
Environment, Design
Building Earthships and Transcending Trump
Environment, Design
Environment, Design
Ask The Experts: The Truth About Sci-Fi (Part One)
Arts, Technology
Ask The Experts: The Truth About Sci-Fi (Part One)
Arts, Technology
Arts, Technology
 
 
 
 
 

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Studio José de la, in collaboration with the Japanese tech firm Mirai Innovation, has created an experiment that allows people to design the shape of a vase using their mind. The experiment suggests that in the future people people that either don't have the physical capacity or the technical skill to make things with hands will be able to make, build and create. During the experiment participants used an Aura headpiece and were seated in a quiet room, where their minds could control certain features of a vase.
Bunurong artist, Mitch Mahoney and Mutti Mutti and Bunurong/Wemba Wemba artist Maree Clarke are creating a 10-metre-long eel trap out of river reeds in Footscray. We spoke to Mitch Mahoney about the role ancient wisdom will play in a more sustainable future and how we, like eels, can adapt to changing environments. • Link in bio. • @footscrayarts + @scigallerymel
"We're trying to address subjects like sustainable living, Aboriginal technology and what non-Indigenous people and Australia as a whole can learn from 60000 years of Aboriginal people managing our land and our waterways." – Bunurong artist Mitch Mahoney. • Bunurong artist Mitch Mahoney and his aunty, Bunurong/Wemba Wemba artist Maree Clarke, are building a huge eel trap made out of river reeds at @footscrayarts for @scigallerymel this month. It'll be launched into the Maribyrnong river, below @footscrayarts, this Friday at 6pm. Interview with Mitch coming soon.
For those that read and enjoyed the recent @honeyfingers article about modern beekeeping (there's a lot of you), @honeyfingers are offering two intimate bee-friendly urban beekeeping courses. You'll learn about how @honeyfingers keep bees, their tips and tricks and how/why they practise foundationless beekeeping. If you're looking to get honey on your fingers this season, look no further. Details below. • 10am - 4pm Sunday 15 + 22 September 2019 Hit the link in the @honeyfingers bio to subscribe to their email list (and follow them if you don't already) • At the @fareshare_australia kitchen garden, Abbotsford. Tickets are $350 + include comprehensive instruction + theory / foundationless beekeeping tricks / swarm management + catching techniques / study guide / hive inspection / honey extraction demonstration / disease identification + treatments / frame construction / honeyed picnic lunches + a hive visit and follow-up mentoring session during the season. • 10% of all profits will go to the Fareshare kitchen garden. • and will help grow and serve 5500 nutritious meals a day to people in Melbourne experiencing food crisis. For more information and details on the course philosophy and topics covered, please subscribe for email updates– and be the first to know when course enrolments open. — Photo by @fairelabees
"Here is an animal that is suffering. Should we do anything to help it?" • To what extent do we have an ethical or moral obligation to relieve animal suffering caused by global warming? • Link in bio.
In 2017 a pretty harrowing video was released online that showed a polar bear starving in the Arctic. It aroused a lively discussion about the need to combat climate change for the bear's sake. Do we have a moral obligation to prevent animal suffering and, if so, what does that mean for our actions to mitigate climate change? Article coming soon. • Photo: A still from the video shot by Paul Nicklen, a National Geographic photographer, on Somerset Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen is using bacteria from an old World War II bomb crater to generate electricity. The crater contains a healthy ecosystem of geobacter bacteria, which are microorganisms that discharge electrons. Van Dongen set up a telescope called Mud Well for the Oerol art festival in The Netherlands where visitors can see the bacteria causing kaleidoscopic visuals in the telescope. Van Dongen is conducting further research into bacteria-fuelled lights, which apparently only need a little water and some vinegar once a week to generate electricity. Van Dongen has also experimented with bioluminescence using octopus bacteria as well. Watch this space. ⠀ • ⠀ Photos by Nichon Glerum.
“It’s important for women to be known as successful employees, rather than successful female employees.” • The Science in Australia Gender Equality (SAGE) was officially launched in 2015 to try and break down “the many barriers to full and equal participation of women and minority groups” in STEM fields. They have over 40 members and Monash University is one of them. We hear from four women studying at Monash about gender equality in the science disciplines and what that will mean in the future. • Illustration by Ben Hammond. Link in bio.
Samantha Allemann caught up with a group of women from Monash University to cut through the assumptions and discuss the realities of being a woman in STEM. “Sometimes you encounter people who assume your success is purely based on gender rather than actual merit," explained Renee Meaney, who is a student of Monash's materials science and engineering department. Full story later this week.⠀ • ⠀ Photo by Tom Ross.
 
 
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