“Mine Kafon” by Massoud Hassani received a Honorary Mention in the The Next Idea category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2014.
Massoud Hassani has designed and hand-built a wind-powered device heavy enough to trip landmines as it rolls over the ground. Massoud drew his inspiration from his childhood. Growing up on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, he and his younger brother Mahmud would play with their homemade wind-powered toys.
About Massoud Hassani
Massoud Hassani (AF/NL), born in Afghanistan in 1983, moved the Netherlands in 1998 in search of a new life. As a child in Kabul, he would make all kinds of toys, sculptures and paintings. By the age of nine he had learnt to weld and worked as a car mechanic.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.