SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
The last weeks I colletected yet on several days pollen at the entrance of the beehives. I also have a pollen collected from spring this year. On 21/22/23-8 I can work at the Chemical Engineering Lab...
View ArticleMETHODS FOR CREATING ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS
Ecological corridors rely partly on methods of urban agriculture, guerilla gardening, ecological management and social anthropology. Corridors can also make good use of avant-garde technologies, so...
View ArticleGROWING FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY CITY: IS IT STILL ART?
More and more people are living in the cities. We have to search for new modes of sustainable living, new ways of food production. Re-examine the link between the city as consumer and the countryside...
View ArticleGROWING INTELLIGENT BEEHIVES
Growing intelligent beehives is a long term project, from mycelium and recycled waste straight into the final guerilla beehive shape. The purpose is to populate Brussels city with a network of...
View ArticleGUERILLA BEEHIVES
Further development: a bio degradable organic hive design and biosensors powered by sustainable energy to develop a beehive that is at the one hand a sensor of the environment (pollution, nectar,...
View ArticleETHOLOGY
Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, and is a sub-topic of zoology. The focus of ethology is on animal behaviour under natural conditions, as opposed to behaviourism,...
View ArticleSETTING UP THE SOUND LAB
I decide to do another bee-sound-experiment. The fist one I did was in 2012 with the Transparent Beehive. Then, the focus was on exhibiting in realtime the sound of the colony. During talks and...
View ArticleHARDWARE AUDIO
Vincent was preparing the audio for the sound beehive: 4 electrets microphones and 4 piezo microphones with preamps mounted in the rooftop of the Warré beehive. We’ve put the charger for the preamps a...
View ArticleDIAGRAM OF THE SOUND BEEHIVE
We have been developing a monitoring device that is based upon the continuous monitoring of the colony’s buzz: a non-intrusive scanning device for controlling the colony’s health & development. We...
View ArticleSTREAMING SET UP [sound beehive]
For many years now, I have been creating experimental set-ups using sustainable beehives that have been augmented with camera’s, microphones, sensors and sensory processing algorithms to analyse the...
View ArticleGUERILLA BEEHIVE [digital fabrication]
The story behind the concept The project ‘Guerilla Beehives’can have an exemplary meaning for the audience if it comes to the public perception sustainability. It is a collaboration between the arts,...
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