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The Drone Salon
The Drone Salon
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Drones move from the battlefield to smart cities and to adhocracy.
Drones are unmanned aircraft. They are either controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission.
In time, drones become smaller, faster, and better accessorised. They can fly alone or in swarms. They are not as expensive and as big as airplanes. They are easily adaptable and can be used for different purposes - from surveillance to monitoring agricultural fields, and wild-life poaching; from carrying bombs, to delivering books and pizza; from targeting and killing individuals to providing medical and first aid assistance.
The intuitive movement of the drone, its sensors and the way it’s controlled from afar, allows us to see things not just from above, but from all directions; vertically horizontally and in any angle in between. Both outside spaces and the indoors are visbile. We can see heat prints and sounds. The analytical capacity of data reads and visualizes not only objects and their movement in space. It recognises social connections and relationships between one person to another.
The drone and its technology are changing our relations with our living environment.
The drone salon aims to provide a multidisciplinary overview of challenges, opportunities and speculations on future transitions caused by the use of drone technology both in the battlefield and in the civic realm. This seminar is punctuated by short presentations and longer conversations between Malkit Shoshan, Ethel Baraona Pohl and experts in the field: lawyers, activists, civic and military drone operators, artists, writers and designers.
Amongst the participants are Quirine Eijkman (Targeted Killing reports, Amnesty International and expert in international law), Catherine Harwood (expert in international law), LtCol Pieter Mink (senior advisor Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Royal Netherland Army Command), Matthew Stadler (writer), Liam Young (futurist, critic and curator), Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture), Pater Ruben (artist) and Yael Messer (art curator).
The seminar is part of ‘Drones and Honeycombs’, a long term research project by Malkit Shoshan for Het Nieuwe Instituut. It focuses on the architecture and landscape of war and international relations. It is also part of a series of public events and a publishing project titled ‘Unmanned. On the spatial and ethical implications of drones’. The latter is a collaboration of dpr-barcelona, Studio-X, FAST, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and The Center for The Study of The Drone.
Drones are unmanned aircraft. They are either controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission.
In time, drones become smaller, faster, and better accessorised. They can fly alone or in swarms. They are not as expensive and as big as airplanes. They are easily adaptable and can be used for different purposes - from surveillance to monitoring agricultural fields, and wild-life poaching; from carrying bombs, to delivering books and pizza; from targeting and killing individuals to providing medical and first aid assistance.
The intuitive movement of the drone, its sensors and the way it’s controlled from afar, allows us to see things not just from above, but from all directions; vertically horizontally and in any angle in between. Both outside spaces and the indoors are visbile. We can see heat prints and sounds. The analytical capacity of data reads and visualizes not only objects and their movement in space. It recognises social connections and relationships between one person to another.
The drone and its technology are changing our relations with our living environment.
The drone salon aims to provide a multidisciplinary overview of challenges, opportunities and speculations on future transitions caused by the use of drone technology both in the battlefield and in the civic realm. This seminar is punctuated by short presentations and longer conversations between Malkit Shoshan, Ethel Baraona Pohl and experts in the field: lawyers, activists, civic and military drone operators, artists, writers and designers.
Amongst the participants are Quirine Eijkman (Targeted Killing reports, Amnesty International and expert in international law), Catherine Harwood (expert in international law), LtCol Pieter Mink (senior advisor Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Royal Netherland Army Command), Matthew Stadler (writer), Liam Young (futurist, critic and curator), Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture), Pater Ruben (artist) and Yael Messer (art curator).
The seminar is part of ‘Drones and Honeycombs’, a long term research project by Malkit Shoshan for Het Nieuwe Instituut. It focuses on the architecture and landscape of war and international relations. It is also part of a series of public events and a publishing project titled ‘Unmanned. On the spatial and ethical implications of drones’. The latter is a collaboration of dpr-barcelona, Studio-X, FAST, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and The Center for The Study of The Drone.
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