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Dear Jean, I don't know if the story about the native Americans is true, but the projects being referred to might be the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - see this amazing document http://www.wipp.energy.gov/PICsProg/Test1/SAND%2092-1382.pdf or the Human Interference Task Force - http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/6799619 Best wishes Dan -- *Dr Dan Lockton * Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU http://danlockton.co.uk | @danlockton <https://twitter.com/danlockton> | +44 (0)7754 211389 GATEway: Public engagement with driverless cars http://gateway-project.org.uk SusLab UK http://suslab.rca.ac.uk Creative Citizens http://creativecitizens.co.uk Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design for Behaviour Change http://behaviourchange.eu Design with Intent toolkit http://designwithintent.co.uk On 12 February 2015 at 16:40, Jean Schneider <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to check whether the following story, that I heard from a > well-known professional, is true or one of these legends that run every now > and then. > > Here it goes : > some time ago (more than a decade for sure), a meeting between scientists, > designers, semioticians and local communities was organised by some > institution in the US. The issue was about the information system and > signage for a landfill that should contain long life (> thousands of years) > radioactive waste. > At some point, the discussion focused on what could be the graphic sign > that would be legible enough and ideally unambiguous so that in thousands > of years from now, no stupid human (or ape, or robot or ?) would stumble > upon the door and try to open it (someone who wouldn't have read > Bluebeard's Castle, obviously) ! > Seemingly, some representative of the native Indian community on which > land the landfill was supposed to be would have said that all this > discussion was nonsense, as they would always be there as they had been for > ages, and would just warn the people in case. > > Its a nice story, but it would be even nicer if it was evidenced (I would > be delighted to read the minutes of that meeting, if they ever existed). > > Best regards, and thanks in advance for any information regarding this. > > Jean > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------