Grammophone windmill
With the project, "met de wind", I want to highlight our dependence on and attention to the wind, and in that process, I explore how our connection to the wind can form a philosophical foundation for a life lived in tune with nature. The windmills I’ve created play music at a speed determined by the wind. In addition, I draw attention to the wind through a windmill that can come to you instead of the other way around, and through the interaction you can have with it. If you want the music to play the way you want it to, you’ll have to find the right wind. Maybe you’ll have to wait a day or two, choose a nice high spot, gaze at the clouds a few times a day, or see what kind of insects are floating through the air. And when the wind does pick up, where is it coming from? Can you sense it with your nose or ears, or can you tell by looking at the clouds? The windmills I’ve designed are objects that celebrate living in tune with the wind. I present the windmills in a workshop for children that invites them to learn about wind through play and challenges them to dream of a future where anything is possible with the wind.
Workshop met de wind
I present my work within a short workshop format for 6-12 year old children. The workshop revolves around ways of minding and finding attention to the wind. the windmill becomes a tool for awareness of wind speed, direction and wind types. The windmills are made to create music on the speed of the wind creating a resulting. During the project I researched ways of finding, recognising and experiencing wind. You can find the documentation of that here...
These methods come into discussion durng the workshop to learn about the possibillities of working with wind power.
Early process
After the research project resulting in voor de wind a chair that moves with the wind and uit de wind a wall that adapts to the wind I wanted to build further on working with wind as the natural force that sets my work into motion. Together with my fascination for weather and wind, I feel the urgency to expand on the relationship we have and have had in the netherlands with the wind and how we are losing this. in terms of energy by wind , day to day experience of wind and In my essay I describe how we distance ourselves from the elements. The miller and the windmill could play a central role in reinventing our relationship to the wind.
Molenaar van de toekomst
As a start of this project I reimagined the miller as a keystone personage for re-imagining our relationship to wind. The same way polineasian navigators utilize their cultural heritage as succesful methods to voyage amoung the elements between islands thousands of miles apart, the miller could be the dutch example for this. How would the miller navigate the atmosphere for a modern demand?
Windmills
I started experimenting with pitch-variable windmills, simply made out of pine wood. How are axises constructed. How do the mechanisms work. and what components are these mills made of? The axis of a windmill is the central piece, in traditional windmills these got extra attention with a dot ar a star