Liam Young Garden Drones presentation
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This presentation was given at Nesta's Hot Topics Garden Drones event. At this event we hosted a panel including Noel Sharkey (Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University of Sheffield), Liam Young (designer, futurist and critic at Tomorrow's Thoughts Today) and Steven Hailes(Professor of Wireless Systems at UCL and the SUAAVE project) to discuss what we can do with UAVs in the future.
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Liam Young Garden Drones presentation
- 1. OPEN SOURCE SKIES @liam_young
- 4. THE PHYSICAL CITY IS DISSOLVING
- 6. CIVILIAN DRONES NOW OUTNUMBER THE MILTARY Source: DIY DRONES
- 7. ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES Liam Young of Tomorrows Thoughts Today With OLGV, Dymaxion and Superflux
- 10. Source: Reporters Without Borders
- 15. DRONES BECOME SO UBIQUITOUS THAT THEY BEGIN TO DISSAPEAR
- 16. CLOUDSPOTTING Liam Young of Tomorrows Thoughts Today and Superflux
- 17. BEAMER BEES Tomorrows Thoughts Today, Superflux And Powerof8
- 19. AUGURY Liam Young of Tomorrows Thoughts Toda and Stuart Candy
- 20. OPEN SOURCE SKIES @liam_young
Hinweis der Redaktion
- I am an architect and urbanist but I don’t design buildings rather i tell stories about the future city. We believe that as designers we sit between culture and technology and we are in an interesting position to speculate on the possibilities and implications of emerging technologies. I am aware I sit between two scientists here so I want to be clear that we think about our work as design provocations. We hope to communicate and raise questions of the way we relate to technology. This is increasingly critical now as emerging technologies are changing cities in ways that is outpacing our cultures capacity to adapt, respond and strategize.
- The traditional infrastructure that once defined cities like, roads, plumbing and park spaces is now giving way to dynamic, nomadic networks, orbiting GPS satellites and cloud computing connections.
- The city is going mobile. The future city will be planned around the mobile phone not the automobile.
- All thats solid is melting into air. Infrastructures are dissolving to potentially become distributed flocks of open source drones.
- The ubiquity of smart phones has meant Drone technology has very quickly evolved from being exclusively high end military and research technology to becoming exceptionally cheap and accessible. As chris Anderson, the founder of DIYdrones has said- this new generation of cheap, small drones is essentially a fleet of flying smartphones.
- These civilian devices now outnumber those controlled by the United States military. The hobby expo is now a much more exciting place than a military trade show. We are only at the very edge of imagining just what drones can be deployed for and similar to the evolution of personal computers we have no real way of fully anticipating how they will be taken up by the public.
- We are interested in speculating on how increasingly accessible drone technology will form a new generation of nomadic infrastructural systems in cities. I am primarily here to talk about one of our drone projects Electronic Countermeasures.
- We began this project after seeing the key role digital connections played in the arab spring protests. Connectivity or the lack of it has huge social and political consequences. We saw Governments cut off the network in a bid to slow the momentum of demonstrations.
- The US military have developed aerial systems to force the internet on dictators who have closed down or censored their own network. This is what we refer to as weaponised connectivity.
- The privatization of information and access as everything dissapears into the cloud, a cloud managed by private companies or nation states, is potentially very dangerous.
- Open source drone networks are perfectly engineered to respond to this condition. They self organise. They are open and decentralised. Networks are robust and resiliant. Independant flocks against privatised networks. Too small to fail. Too numerous to take down. The more slippery and fluid the infrastructure the more difficult it is to close.
- Electronic Countermeasures is a flock of GPS enabled quadcopter drones that broadcast their own wifi network as a flying pirate file sharing infrastructure. They swarm into formation, broadcasting their pirate network, and then disperse, escaping detection, only to reform elsewhere. As a form of aerial Napster, the public can upload files and share data with one another as the drones float above the significant public spaces of the city. Electronic Countermeasures is a nomadic architecture, ‘a roaming infrastructure built from digital broadcast rather than steel, a drifting island of information.’
- Social interactions can develop around autonomous drone systems. New forms of community could take shape around these digitally enabled networks. With Electronic Countermeasures we are interested in how new geographically specific data cultures may emerge. Just like particular areas or neighbourhoods in cities that have their own qualities and atmospheres you could also imagine data flocks, chasing a drone swarm for a specific sort of data. We hang out in this area because it is where the hottest music uploads are, above the picket fences drift suburban porn caches or revolutionary discussion boards create new forums in the public spaces of the city.
- Their aerial choreography and dynamic formations give visual expression to the digital communities of the city.
- There is also a large array of alternative uses for the aerial swarm that we are beginning to test beyond file sharing and virtual communities. In the near future city drones become almost like pigeons, so ubiquitous and familiar they begin to disappear.
- We are developing a whole range of projects in this series of nomadic speculative infrastructures. Just like Electronic Countermeasures we are exploring the way drones become dynamic interactive systems and how they can be knitted into the natural systems that surround us. These projects include robotic clouds that can be dialled up to rain on demand, sensitive to high frequency signals. We dial up a few with our tweetdecks, they rain on our neighbours barbeque and mud up the soil for a music festival slip and slide.
- Artificial pollinators to support declining bee populations
- Like electric fireflies we keep them by our bed
- Or drone fleets with speakers on them become a dynamic surround sound orchestra in the deserts of burning man where went this summer.
- We are at an exciting point where this technology has just become publicly accessible and many people are exploring its possible implications. Just as the DARPA net became the internet commons it will be the bottom up community engagement with drone technologies that will present its real opportunities. The sky is of course not empty however. It is a highly regulated space and as legislation catches up with civilian drone technologies it will become increasingly so. But, it is not until you push back against the systems of control that they reveal themselves. We need to keep launching to find where these limits are. That then changes them, for better or worse In interviews I am always asked about all the negative possibilities of drones. Like any technology they are open to misuse but in the end the real means through which the potential applications of a new technology is understood is to democratise it and see what emerges.