Comments on: How will they say DANGER in 10,000 years? http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/05/16/how-will-they-say-danger-in-10000-years/ Pursuing datameaningfulness, online and off Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:29:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rachel http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/05/16/how-will-they-say-danger-in-10000-years/#comment-4 Rachel Thu, 17 May 2007 14:33:37 +0000 http://meaningfuldata.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/how-will-they-say-danger-in-10000-years/#comment-4 Yep, that's the same project, and I think the spike field is one of the designs that didn't get chosen. There were some other menacing landscape concepts too, but I think they decided not to go in that direction at all. The craziest part is that they don't necessarily think it will be safe in 10,000 years, but that's all the time they wanted to commit to! Yep, that’s the same project, and I think the spike field is one of the designs that didn’t get chosen. There were some other menacing landscape concepts too, but I think they decided not to go in that direction at all.

The craziest part is that they don’t necessarily think it will be safe in 10,000 years, but that’s all the time they wanted to commit to!

]]> By: Tobi Jo http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/05/16/how-will-they-say-danger-in-10000-years/#comment-3 Tobi Jo Thu, 17 May 2007 14:27:01 +0000 http://meaningfuldata.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/how-will-they-say-danger-in-10000-years/#comment-3 This is pretty interesting and reminds me of a page in one of my favorite books "Universal Principles of Design". In the book, they include a project on how to label some 500,000 barrels of radioacitve waste buried in the New Mexico dessert. Since this stuff would be dangerous for 10,000 years, they needed to come up with a pretty enduring way to label it. The design featured in the book is the "Spike Field". Not sure if this will actually get built, but it's a pretty effective way to communicat danger. Here's a kind of grainy image, but it should give you the idea. http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/Brill_files/image002.jpg This is pretty interesting and reminds me of a page in one of my favorite books “Universal Principles of Design”. In the book, they include a project on how to label some 500,000 barrels of radioacitve waste buried in the New Mexico dessert. Since this stuff would be dangerous for 10,000 years, they needed to come up with a pretty enduring way to label it.
The design featured in the book is the “Spike Field”. Not sure if this will actually get built, but it’s a pretty effective way to communicat danger. Here’s a kind of grainy image, but it should give you the idea.
http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/Brill_files/image002.jpg

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