Since the objectives and goals of this semester-project are covering a relatively broad field of topics and are for the most part intentionally based on a theoretical and modular concept (see the expired concept-building introduction), it seemed like we should also investigate a few of these concepts in more practical detail.
We hope that this allows us to avoid creating a purely theoretical work, exclusively based on 3rd party data. It should also allow us to work beyond of what one can find in the published literature, as the aim of this semester-project is also to propose possibilities for the transfer of TK to situations not yet covered by the existing texts.
Therefore we decided to select some of the concepts covered in this report for these experiments. Criteria for making this selection were ease of implementation, costs, transferability to the European climate, and space as well as time needed. For the most part the actual experiments should therefore fall into the most low-tech and low-cost category of the TK systems proposed.
Furthermore we think that actually trying to use the concepts suggested by us would make a good litmus test for them, because if we fail to implement them it would also shed some light on the ease of implementation in the actual settings proposed.
Of course not all of the TK we discuss in this report can be easily transferred and investigated in actual experiments in a external, e.g. non in situ setting, but the following examples provide a partial outlook on which experiments we chose to experiment with.