Woodiana.today is an experimental online forecast service developed to inform the public about the Danube’s future through speculative fabulation. It is run by Woodiana, a freshwater mussel. Woodiana uses a forecasting algorithm to predict the concentration of pollutants in the surface water which then influence her motion, leaving us with secret patterns in the sand. Based on these temporal motion patterns, the Woodiana.today website reports on the current and upcoming status of the Anthropocene and anticipated environmental conditions that the river Danube might expect in the future.
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Woodiana.today has been heavily informed by science and scientific water data but interprets it through a dialogue with other agents: economics, politics, art, theory, ai technology, history, speculative fiction, and the role that Danube had played for different cultures as a totemic, spiritual, military and ecological touchstone.
