Ok, this may be a little late (the camp was back in July), but enjoy it hard. This is a Team Wind production! You can find more about the projects here.
There will be a festival in Newcastle, England in October that you should all check out. There will be all kinds of socially relevant projects that have 'designed' solutions, and the camp will have a spot there.
I was part of Team Wind and well be putting "spinning skirts" on turbines. Sexy. Here's a further description.
Perpetua
Wind turbines harness a source of clean, renewable and free energy, addressing growing concern over carbon emissions and energy security. Despite their advantages, residents remain hostile to these elegant and majestic forms emerging over the countryside, with complaints of ruining the view and damaging business from tourism.
Although aesthetically motivated, the Perpetua project goes beyond mere landscaping treatments by using the turbine structures themselves as an integral means of experiencing the environment.
Movement from the turbine blades is transformed into a shifting overhead structure whose size and shape are dependent on wind speed. By directly representing the strength of the wind, the process used to capture energy can be more easily understood.
The installations encourage passers-by to approach the turbines, mediating between the scales of landscape, turbine and human.
At once a tourist attraction and a community resource, Perpetua can be experienced from the distance of a passing car, but also encourages interaction in the landscape as an event or meeting space. From the scale of passer-by to that of the user, the experience is beautiful and memorable.
