Day 3 Monday June 3: Water

 Sit Spots: soundscaping

How to carry water? Origami water bombs (Susan)

If you had to create something by yourself that could carry water, what would you make and how would you do it?

As kids growing up in Hamilton, Ontario (and no doubt in many other places!), we used to make origami ‘water bombs’. These are easy-to-learn folding projects that create small paper cubes with a hole in the top. (See folding instructions below, and this photographic guide). We used to fill them with water and throw them at each other or at a fence or the ground, especially on hot days in June.

Let’s try making these — small ones from origami paper squares, larger ones from butcher paper and waxed, and some really big ones from Tyvek. Then we can test them to see if they hold water, if we can carry them as is, and if we need to construct anything to help us carry water in them.

Some questions include:

- Are there other ways we could make things to carry water in the forest? We can share some 

ideas and beginning research.

- Can we make water-tight baskets, even small ones? There is a history of people being able to create watertight baskets of this kind! For just one example, see this post on birch bark baskets used for cooking

- Would we use beeswax  or tar or resin to waterproof something like cloth or basketry?

If you’re really interested in some cool origami, you might want to try the Miura Ora. Mathematical artist Uyen Nguyen (‘Win-Win’!) makes amazing clothing and collapsible bags using this fold.

More water explorations:

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  Water computers? Something like Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests (that use compressed air rather than water, and PVC piping)? Simple logic circuits using water? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw

Water clocks?

Can water solve a maze? (Nenad)

Can we design a rain music fountain or roof?