“Open_Sailing” aims to design an attractive technological lifestyle to overcome any possible natural or man-made disaster, stimulating people’s ingenuity and sense of solidarity. Whether it is from overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where “apocalypse” beckons. We need to collectively invent and spread bootstrapping DIY technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent. In the process we are developing and testing numerous novel technologies, such as Instinctive Architecture, Energy Animal and Life Cable, within an innovative nomadic ecosystem. The Swarm Search Engine is a distributed operating system that suggests a general safest location and a form for the overall structure, which constantly reconfigures itself in order to provide intelligent distribution of supplies, energy and information.
We are trying to create a truly “open architecture”. This is a drifting village of solid and comfortable shelters surrounded by flexible ocean-farming units: fluid, pre-broken, reconfigurable, sustainable, pluggable, organic and instinctive. “Open_ Sailing 02”, for five people, is about 30m in diameter.
“Open_Sailing” aims to ask questions about the way we currently inhabit our planet. Can we reach a harmonious dynamic state of interdependence with each other and the earth? Is this the next step for civilization, a natural step for post-industrialization? Will we disassociate our concept of progress from rigid infrastructure and metropolis? We believe that we can, and we are taking the first step!
We are a constantly growing, multidisciplinary, international team of about 15 people designing and engineering the prototype that is being built now in the UK, France and Morocco under the mentoring of numerous experts.

Links: www.opensailing.net/ars

Open_Sailing is an open-source, globally coordinated project with input from experts in many fields. The team are from a variety of backgrounds, with overall coordination by designer Cesar Harada from the Royal College of Art’s Design Interactions Lab. The core team is Hiromi Ozaki, Colet Castaño, Ollie Palmer, Martin Gautron, Nasser Moustakim, Nadine Freischland, Adrien Lecuru, Rupert Spann, Narito Harada, Jorge Guberte, Yoko Kasai, Abigail Palmer, Sinta Tantra, Pano Kroko, and many more—we’re growing every day!