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RITUAL AS SENSOR; RITUAL AS CARE

I feel disconnected to nature. As do, I imagine, many people in the urbanized world, and it is partly this disconnection that drives the ecological emergency threatening bodies of water at a global level. This project is a personal exploration of methodologies to find ways of countering that disconnection and form new relations with the river Ilm in Weimar.

Through a series of rituals, sensing experiments and forms of storytelling I seek to challenge myself towards a more spiritual and reciprocal connection with the river. Acknowledging that colonialism, white privilege, dominant scientific practice and capitalism have shaped my worldview and my relationships with more-than-human worlds I choose to stretch my imagination towards possible futures of co-evolution: to imagine how a close relationship with a body of water might look. What a spiritual connection to water might entail, resemble, or signify. What might the interaction between a river and a human be like if it were mutual?

WORKING PROCESS

RITUALS

REFERENCES / INSPIRATION

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+'''RITUAL AS SENSOR; RITUAL AS CARE'''
-=='''WORKING PROCESS'''==
+[[:File:IlmRiver_winter.jpg]]
-''SENSORS AND SENSING''
+I feel disconnected to nature.  As do, I imagine, many people in the urbanized world, and it is partly this disconnection that drives the ecological emergency threatening bodies of water at a global level. This project is a personal exploration of methodologies to find ways of countering that disconnection and form new relations with the river Ilm in Weimar.
-.12.2022
+Through a series of rituals, sensing experiments and forms of storytelling I seek to challenge myself towards a more spiritual and reciprocal connection with the river. Acknowledging that colonialism, white privilege, dominant scientific practice and capitalism have shaped my worldview and my relationships with more-than-human worlds I choose to stretch my imagination towards possible futures of co-evolution: to imagine how a close relationship with a body of water might look. What a spiritual connection to water might entail, resemble, or signify. What might the interaction between a river and a human be like if it were mutual?
-'''water sensor'''
-https://lastminuteengineers.com/water-level-sensor-arduino-tutorial/
-The water sensor is used to detect the presence of water and is typically used to monitor water levels, detect the presence of water or leaks in spaces that need to be kept dry or detect rain fall.
-The water sensor is essentially a variable resistor that has more or less resistance depending on the amount of water it comes in contact with.
-It works very well at detecting the presence of water but the jump to the maximum range very quickly when more than a few drops of water are applied.
-To connect the Arduino, water sensor and three LED's to indicate the amount of water present I followed the circuit diagram and code here:
-https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/123lYT/simple-water-level-sensor-with-led-ebf3f7
-In this example the sensor is being used as a rain indicator, so three states were defined: Dry Weather, Average rain and Heavy rain. Depending on the level of water present one of three LED lights would turn on and a corresponding message would be printed in the Arduino console.
-<gallery>
-File:WaterSensor.jpg |The Water Sensor
-File:3LED_Setup.jpg |Circuit with 3 x LEDs
-File:Detect_heavyRain.jpg |Red LED indicating presence of water
-File:WaterSensor_3LED.mp4
-</gallery>
-<source style="border:none; height:auto; overflow:scroll;" lang="c" line start="55" highlight="4">
-int blue=2;
-int red=3;
-int white=4;
-void setup () {
-  pinMode (blue,OUTPUT);
-  pinMode (red,OUTPUT);
-  pinMode (white,OUTPUT);
-  Serial.begin (9600);}
-void loop() {
-  // read the input on analog pin 0:
-  int value = analogRead(A0);
-  Serial.println (value );
-  if (value > 500) {
-    Serial.println("Very heavy Rain");
-    digitalWrite (blue,LOW);
-    digitalWrite(red,HIGH);
-    digitalWrite(white,HIGH);}
-  else if ((value > 100) && (value <= 500)) {
-    Serial.println("AVERAGE Rain");
-    digitalWrite (red,LOW);
-    digitalWrite (blue,HIGH);
-    }
-  else{
-    Serial.println("Dry Weather");
-    digitalWrite (white,LOW);
-    digitalWrite (red,HIGH);
-    digitalWrite (blue,HIGH);
-  delay(100);
-  }
-  }
-</source>