Biodesign:State of Our Environment

State of our Environment

This workshop will be conducted by the ArtScienceBLR at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.

In this workshop, we will look at different ways of gathering and disseminating information about pollutants in water. We will build devices to test for water quality,design maps and conceptualize ways of visualizing this data. We will also collect stories about water sources and water sheds. This workshop is ideal for students interested in Visual communication,Film, product design and those interested in environmental activism.

Within the broad framework of the Biodesign project, these were the concerns: how do you get community participation in gathering data?How do you make this data more meaningful?- These are concerns that have been raised not only during the course of the workshop but were also raised when we visited LifePatch.

This is the documentation from the workshop.

1. Collecting Data.

For the workshop, we decided to focus on water bodies around Yelahanka:

Puttenahalli Lake ( 13.112 N, 77.578E )

Allalasandra Lake ( 13.0912 N, 77.5844 E)

Collecting Data can be a fun community project. Inspired by Gabrielle Levine's bots, we constructed a boat-bot to collect water samples:: Instructions on how to build the boat can be found here:

2.Analyzing the Data.

We used the ORLAB arsenic kit on the water sample.

-. Here are the results for the 2 samples:

Once this data was recorded, the next step was to design a data-base that would serve the maps.

--Data for Human Beings.

--Mapping the Data.

--Making Maps.