Surveying the Land
How-to guides
Collecting data
'smart dust'
intel chip sensing/ video cameras, microphones on birds
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Horse shoes:
Riding on horse back, in secure distance from the toxic ground, horse shoes with spikes (fashioned after golf/soccer cleates) could collect samples of soil. Also they could detect metal in the ground and give instant feed back. (more enhanced garments for the horse)

Golf Shoes:
Subverting the intended use of golf cleats to be networked soil research device.
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Imagining El Toro
Facts and what we imagine
What local people think of the site
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Beyond El Toro
Networking

Satellite Parks: remote open space areas networked via radio control tower at El Toro: Offshoots

Pollen
Finding a distributed amount of land around El Toro of 4738 acres, in between spots that can be transformed into tiny spots with park qualities

They could be seen as:
- simple underground growing offshoots
- due to military activities, mutations of semi intelligent spacetravel-like scouts that settle in the surrounding and investigate the urban 'wildlife' and keep a constant connection running among each other and to the El Toro homebase control tower. people able to interact with them.
- Vending machines
containing the basic components of the park for sale (rocks, dirt, seeds), and instructions to rebuild a small park (planting, building a bench..)
- offer ways to survey your own surrounding on the spot (print out pollution data, contain bird identifying programme (song site), microphones to monitor noise pollution,
- have things for you to prepare for park visit: yarn to knit blanket, building smart picknick basket, sunglasses, hats,
currency could be spare keys, urban trash (old credit cards, tickets, phone cards..) (what could we create from that?)

Their looks:
be build from materials from El Toro, fallen trees, old wood from buildings...
print a poster of the fence and tile it onto packages
Since different satellite parks would be networked, activitiy or pollution data could be used to display or trigger new actions.


The Mall as Biosphere
- comparing Parks and Malls (or El Toro as it is now and mall) - doing the same research and collecting data in both territories,
issues:
- needs for survival: food, clothing, shelter, chances to find partner
-wildlife, control, climate,
making devices to survive in controlled mall environment
map the power structures of companies in the mall. get map of all stores in malls,
examine their location within the space.
Existing Natural Environment in mall.
Natural History audio tour of mall with RF tags or GPS tags embedded in environment.
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Transformation over time Preparing for El Toro
[2004-2014]
As it takes 10 years for the Great Park to be open to public, people can get ready with building robot pickinick coolers, blankets and observation tools ...

From a wild, toxic, deserted area to a green, gentle, profitable park
Growing something inside over those ten years
People from Orange County growing something
collecting satellite images that document transformation
changes related to other places in the world - transformation of rain forest/ arcitca/ urban areas...relate them to changes in El Toro, representations...
maybe the control tower is receiving those pieces of information, sends them out again like a radio station of constant data flow.
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The Fence as Interface
Richard would be excited to throw silhouettes of Orange County citizens over the fence and have them suck there in the ground, waving gently in the wind. This could be triggered and viewed through a web interface. Once the construction work is starting, the citizens would get thrown from the property.
Growing ivy on the fence, leaving windows to look through.

Getting around
Making a compass that works on different parameters
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El Toro as Resource
Toxic soil with heavy metals in the ground used as battery
bio diesel, using ocean water for plants, instead of importing
solar technology : sunny california
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misc:
carrier pigeons
throwing things over the fence (fishing hook)
remote controlled robots and flying objects
people going in baskets on rails, not touching the ground
green point system
night time adventures
remote visitors
sensoriums (shelters of silence..) (ref. MIT project - James Auger..)
golf water waste management
park fashion (park dress)
wild tracks
dinosaur traces
what does public park mean? the public has to wait with getting to their park, and then having to pay for it double - through taxes through fees.