FIVE WEEKS UNTIL  SUBMISSION

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We had a meeting with the beavers, and here we tried to come up with a contract. Our aim was to bring them back to their environment and we establish a two-way contract (on the right), where we can help them and they can help the humans using the Isar.

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We created a toolkit (image below), meant for communicating and working WITH beavers and thereby maintaining beaver dams. 

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TOOLKIT

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1. SOUNDS

• Michel Leclair: we learnt from the beaver whisperer that this techniques to communicate with them  

• inviting them to build dams in certain places through the sound op flowing water

• We will try to make a sequence of sounds by the Isar.

 

2. SMELLS

• Artists in Tierra de Fuego, Chile are working on perfumes

• We’ll use the smells of different beaver territories instead of the chicken wire, again to invite them to other places, but not prohibit them

 

3. RULES

• For the user of the toolkit

• Rules

  • You should only intervene in structures that start posing a problem

  • You should intervene in time, not when the dam is already built

  • You should use it during the day, when the beavers are not working

  • You should only use the stuff included in the toolkit

  • The changes shouldn’t be to dramatic

  • Use the pipes rather than making structural changes on the dams, since it’s less invasive and the dams can stay intact.

 

4. PIPES

• We will incorporate a system to control the water level by using pipes

• It doesn’t damage the dams, but actually makes them more effective

 

5. MAP

• We’ll keep track with maps on how they’re responding

• We’ll document the changes we made to the Isar to help them as well (islands, trees, sounds, smells,…)

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6. FLIPPERS

• Useful to work like a beaver

• Since we try to create a distance so beavers can work more peacefully, you’ll need those to cross from the shore to the so called “islands”

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7. GLOVES + NAILS

• You use these instead of human methods, less of an intervention on the environment

• Nails to be able to grab and scratch more

• Gloves as a protection from the water, cold and other factors

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------------------NEXT STEPS------------------

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• create second generation of the toolkit, seperate the tools to work like a beaver (gloves, flippers and add swimsuit) and tools to maintain the dams (pipes, map,...)

• experiment with the Michel Leclair methods of communicating with sounds by the Isar and present it in a video or audio file

• 3D simulation of how the Isar would change with the dams

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