Networking Nature: Studiomobile’s Living Ecosystem Produces Fresh Water for a Future World of Rising Oceans

For the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/venice-biennale/">Venice Architecture Biennale 2012</a>, <a href="http://inhabitat.com/seawater-farming-solution-for-the-arid-emirates/" target="_blank">Studiomobile</a> imagined a world where humans embraced the encroaching ocean as a new resource, rather than shrinking in retreat. <a href="http://www.studiomobile.org/works.php?id=45&amp;name=Networking+Nature" target="_blank">Networking Nature</a> is an ecosystem that lives off of seawater - and in turn produces fresh drinking water. The piece's glass tank is filled with ocean water, which is then transformed into fresh drinking water through a series of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/memsys-creates-a-solar-powered-shipping-container-desalination-system/">solar-powered stills</a>. Heat produced by small lamps causes the seawater to evaporate, then the steam is condensed into fresh water, which is collected in tanks and distributed to those who need it.

The <a href="http://www.studiomobile.org/works.php?id=45&amp;name=Networking+Nature" target="_blank">Networking Nature installation</a> is an ecosystem that lives off of seawater.

The piece's glass tank is filled with ocean water, which is then transformed into fresh drinking water through a series of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/memsys-creates-a-solar-powered-shipping-container-desalination-system/">solar-powered stills</a>.

Heat produced by small lamps causes the seawater to evaporate, then the steam is condensed into fresh water, which is collected in tanks and distributed to those who need it.

But the Networking Nature device isn't just designed to provide individuals or families with fresh water, it's meant to be part of a larger local water infrastructure.

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"The Smart Water Network will be a layer of the ecological network as well as the Smart Power Grid and the communications network. This strategy not only gives response to the preservation of the environment, but it is also a radically new model that ensures free and democratic access to the resources to everybody."