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HOW CAN A WATER COOLER BE SUSTAINABLE?
Designer:Lizanne DirkxProject:Drinkfontein (drinking fountain)
Why drink bottled water when the water from the tap is at least as good? Lizanne Dirkx wanted to stress the high quality of Dutch tap water and give it a special place. She has translated her fascination with fountains as a favoured meeting place into this Drinking Fountain. A sustainable and aesthetically justifiable alternative for the plastic water coolers you find in offices and public spaces. The earthenware will keep the tap water cool without using any electricity. The custom-made glasses and carafe with rubber valves will fill automatically when placed on the nipples.
HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR TIME IN THE AIR?
HOW CAN WE USE ORAL KNOWLEDGE IN OUR DESIGN?
Designer:Ryuo Ji Hyun
Project:Shaping oral knowledge
New technologies offer quick and easy solutions, but they also mean losing a great deal of traditional knowledge, which is seen as old fashioned. However new technologies are only simple in terms of the final output and always have more complicated processes behind them. Jihyun Ryou has researched this subject, focusing specifically on food preservation, which people today have handed over to their refrigerators. We no longer understand how to treat it. Her design is a tool to implement oral knowledge – which has been accumulated by experience and transmitted verbally from one person to another – in a tangible way. By paying attention to food and changing our ideas of food preservation we can restore the connection between different types of living beings, ourselves and our food. We can also address current issues such as energy overconsumption and food wastage. And by getting people thinking and creating new traditions and new rituals, this tool can contribute to changing the bigger picture and slowly help bring about change in society.
CAN DESIGN HELP US RECONNECT WITH OUR BIORYTHMS?
Designer:Wendy Legro
Project:Morning Glory
Because we use so much artificial light, we have lost touch with our biorhythms. With Morning Glory, Wendy Legro wants to bring back the sun, our natural source of light, into our lives. This light, consisting of mechanical flowers, works on a light sensor. By day, the flowers are closed, allowing the sun to shine in, and after sunset they open up and radiate light as they begin to cover the window.
CAN DESIGN CONFRONT US WITH OUR DOUBLE STANDARDS?
Designer:Amélie Onzon
From Fable to Table
Do you use these pieces to produce foie gras, or to give the ducks a better life? While conducting a research into the consumption of meat, Amélie Onzon became fascinated with the relationship between man and animal. ‘People will pamper their pets, yet at the same time they will eat the meat from other animals. This meat will have an abstract appearance, because we refuse to associate it with the living creature it once was.’ With From Fable to Table, Onzon wants to show us the inconsistencies in our relationships with animals.
CAN ART BE FUNCTIONAL?
HOW CAN FURNITURE BE REPRODUCIBLE YET RETAIN ITS CONNECTION TO NATURE?
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF METAPHOR?
WHY CAN'T WE HONOUR OUR TEARS?
HOW CAN WE MAKE TENDER THE LAST GOODBYE TO A LOVED ONE WHO HAS DIED?Designer:Roos Kuipers
Project:Mark the last veil
Closing a coffin is a harsh, abrupt action that is ill-suited to the sensitive and emotional process of grieving. Roos Kuipers has designed a bier with softer, rounder shapes. When saying their last goodbyes, the bereaved can cover their lost one with six layers of transparent cloth, one at a time, slowly veiling the image of the deceased. Fastening each layer of cloth into a groove in the side, they can lovingly tuck in the deceased with the utmost care.
WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO TAKE A BATH?
Designer:Anna van der Lei
Anna van der Lei believes the bathroom as a fitted room is too restrictive. Having a bath is more than a physical cleanse; a good bath in the right place will be relaxing and refreshing. This Dutch version of a Finnish sauna can be placed outside as well as indoors. The larchwood cupboard has custom-made joints that will expand as they get wet, making it completely watertight. You can hang your clothes over the bath, where the steam will freshen them up while you sit and soak.
HOW ARE TRADITIONS RELATED TO CULTURE?
Designer:Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin
Project:Moulding tradition
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have made a statement about this subject with their Moulding tradition. Sicilian craftsmen create ceramic vases that refer to the Arabic-African rule, the culture that brought the brightly painted ceramics to Italy. At the same time, African immigrants today are seen as a threat to Italian culture. The nine ceramic pieces created by Trimarchi and Farresin represent history and question the nature of culture.
WHY AREN'T WE USING A HOT WATER BOTTLE ANYMORE?
Designer:Wendy Legro
Project:Hot-water bottle
Why is the hot water bottle increasingly replaced by an electric blanket? Wendy Legro wanted to reinstate the hot-water bottle, which offers us convenience and comfort if we are feeling poorly. In order to make it better suited to the natural curves of the human body, she adapted its texture, the lid, its ability to preserve heat, and its shape. The new material, felt, will spread the warmth gradually. To strengthen her hot-water bottle, she has lined the inside of the felt with polyurethane. Rubber makes it waterproof.
HOW CAN YOU RUN WITH YOUR IMAGINATION?
CAN WE PURIFY TOXIC AIR WIHT PLANTS?
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