EchoMap
A portable recorder for wildlife researchers, proposed to locate the origin of an animal sound in three dimensions rather than simply capture it.
Concept and proposition research.
Independent
Concept study
Drawing, Form development, Proposition research
The proposition
The study began with research into decoding whale communication, and with one observation from it: where and how a call is produced can matter to conservation science as much as the sound itself. A recording tells you what was said. A position tells you who said it, to whom, and from how far.
The faceted geodesic body gives a fixed, known array geometry — the geometry is the instrument — while staying light enough to carry on a strap for a long day in the field.
This is drawing, form development and a value-proposition study for wildlife research and environmental monitoring bodies. It has not been built or bench-tested, and is presented as what it is.