Yucca Mountain
In regard to our Ikea trip. Here is a link you may want to look at:
http://www.kelake.org/archive/projects/the-ikea-shopping-experience.html
Taken from the Desert Space web site
"Introduction and Challenge
The Desert Space Foundation presented an exhibition comprised of winning designs in a variety of media that engage the challenge of creating an effective universal warning sign/permanent marker for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mt., Nevada.
The purpose of the warning sign is to deter intentional or inadvertent human intrusion or interference at the site and to effectively communicate over the course of the next 10,000 years (the projected duration of the volatility of the waste) that the integrity of the site must not be compromised in any way in order to safeguard humanity from the release of the radiation contained within."
Just to give you an idea of scale. Bradbury Brook, a site in Minnesota, has artifacts from the Paleoindian era dating back to 9,500 BP (Before Present) and it is believed to be only a few thousand years after man first migrated to North America.
Your job is to design a warning sign for people 10,000 years from now. Consider what type of iconography will still be relevant 10,000 years from now. What language, if any, will you use?
We will break into 3-4 person groups to work on your designs. The last 45 minutes of class will be devoted to making sharing the designs class discussion.
