The Extreme Bestiary

High-Level Project Summary

Can you help us find the “Space Biological Super Hero”?Here is our interactive "bestiary", where users have the possibility of combining different beings to create a biological space superhero, in a playful, fun and collaborative way,Each being that we choose to incorporate into this "bestiary" has a motive and an objective, explained in our proposed paper.To make this selection we decided to analyze the risks of survival in space and think about what qualities our beasts should have. From this we search, in different sources, what animals or insects we could combine to create an immortal being.

Detailed Project Description

Can you help us find the “Space Biological Super Hero”?



To design the project presented, we thought of creating an organism that brings together many of the qualities that we listed above.

At that time, we analyzed the information contained in the GeneLab repository, to determine if it would be necessary to evaluate the tests carried out.

There we discovered the enormous diversity of tests on different organisms, and it seemed appropriate that the super organism to be created was made in a collaborative way, between our selection and the interaction of the users.

Also, we wanted to give space for luck, as we believe that human research and exploration still has a long way to go, and many things are sometimes discovered by chance. Sometimes it's an "intended" luck, of course.

That is why we wanted to put together a random and interactive "bestiary".


The creative process was as follows:





  • Search for images of each selected being
  • Selection of representative images
  • Digital drawing made by Ana

  • Creation of sentences that highlight the qualities of each organism, made by Emilia
  • Order of the sentences and the names of the organisms
  • Combination of names, phrases and digital drawings
  • Creation of an interactive web page with the combination of the content







Conclusions


The bestiary became a playful, fun and very exciting project. We show it to other people so that they can enjoy it and interact with it, achieving a lot of laughter and interest in the proposed organisms.


The wonderful thing is that we haven't figured out what the “Space Biological Super Hero” is yet, but we do know that it is found in some combination. Can you help us find it?


Join us here, take a picture and share it!

Space Agency Data

We were using NASA data for our project.

Hackathon Journey

Determining the path


To solve this challenge we have followed these steps:




  1. Analyze the data provided by NASA, focusing on:
  1. Discuss, in a playful and collaborative way, how to solve the dangers of space travel
  2. Define the presentation format of the organisms for the challenge
  3. Production of the content of the challenge


We chose this challenge because last year we also participated in the project of thinking of the Earth as a superhero, and we thought it was very good to continue those ideas with this new challenge.

References

  1. The Biological Space Program
  2. Repository GeneLab
  3. The dangers of space travel
  4. Lost in Space series
  5. Star Wars movies
  6. Video music: Space by Chad Crouch

Tags

#digitalart, #art, #organisms, #interactive, #flipbook