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Doctor Watson Architects: AIR Grid Transnational
No full textAt a place called Saint Paul-lez-Durance in Southern France there is an enormous construction site where scientists and engineers are building a Tokamak (The word is an abbreviation for toroidal chamber with magnetic coils, it is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. Tokamaks were invented in the 1950s by soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov). The project at Saint Paul-lez-Durance (otherwise known as ITER) is an International adventure tracing its roots back to the 1985 Superpower Summit held in Geneva, where the American President Ronald Regan agreed to the Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachov’s suggestion of working collectively towards the development of fusion energy for peaceful purposes. Once the ITER Tokamak is assembled it will be used to progress the scientific research, necessary if the idea of fusion energy is ever to become a reality.
Doctor Watson Architects take the circumstances of ITER as an opportunity for conducting an architectural thought experiment. We propose an additional programmatic element be added to the ITER research activities that will out last its current, strictly scientific role. To this end we propose the idea of an enduring and evolving Museum of the Radiant Future (MORF), whose major function is the redirection of attitudes away from the widespread incomprehension of science, technology and art towards understanding as a source of optimism for a heterogenous human and non-human world, rich in possibilities and active knowledge. To this end we are currently devising and constructing a psychophysical model of the ITER complex that aims to communicate its revised mode of functioning
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Watson Chronicle: Publication of the Watson College of Education
No full text"Watson Chronicle" is the magazine for alumni and friends of the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Flag Mountain Lookout - James Watson Parker, 1983
No full textCaption: "Flag Mountain. Set of 11 July 1983. James Watson Parker.
Snowmold research plots at the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1955
No full textView of lined snowmold plots at the Toro Research Center, in Minnesota, 1955. Small amounts of snow in background, cars in lot in the back corner.Photographer uncertain"Snowmold overall looking West March 11, 1955 Jim Watson Toro R&D"Image taken on Kodachrome.Semicool humi
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