Designing for Longevity
Alexander Rose |
TEDxBermuda
• October 2019
How do you design artifacts and institutions that will last as long as civilization?
For over two decades, Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, Alexander Rose and a team of thought leaders and engineers have been studying how both objects and organizations have lasted through time. Construction of their iconic 10,000 Year Clock project is currently underway in West Texas where they have used giant custom robots and explosives to excavate over 500 vertical feet through solid rock to house the Clock. He will discuss the building of the Clock as well as the research and design process that has ranged from the Arctic Seed Vault in Svalbard, nuclear waste repositories in Finland, and various ways institutions have lasted for over the millennia.