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Mona Lab

In 2014 Mona’s Kirsha Kaechele, (in collaboration with University of Tasmania and CSIRO), invited us to design a floating lab. One of our favourite projects that, sadly, never got built.

“While we have the cleanest air (we are used as the baseline for measuring the world’s concentration of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases, other air pollutants), the Derwent River on which MONA sits is one of the most contaminated in the world.

In 2013 Mona established the Heavy Metal Project, under the direction of Kirsha Kaechele, to bring together artists, designers, scientists and architects to use their disciplines to collaboratively study and attempt to clean the Derwent River of its legacy of 20th century industry — mercury, lead, cadmium, zinc and copper.”

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