Seasmith, Prophet, Transducer, Storyteller, Beacon, Selkie: each card in this collection personifies important, but invisible, work in the marine energy industry.
This was a collection of seven cards demonstrating, and celebrating, the invisible work ongoing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in the Orkney islands, Scotland, the world’s first grid-connected test site for wave energy and tide energy.
Each card represents different social and cultural work, which is just as essential as the technical work, ongoing in this nascent industry. This expertise is often invisible, but is essential to both the test site and the future of the marine energy industry as a whole.
These cards were developed with Rebecca Ford in collaboration with EMEC during 2014 as part of the Alien Energy research project at IT University of Copenhagen.