heather rogers’ gone tomorrow:the hidden life of garbage is a wonderful short documentary that shows how the myth of recycling was created by materials manufacturers to convince people that plastics and metals are recyclable as a way to feel good about consuming more and more via meiver
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downcycling
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magnet finger
body artists jesse jarrell and steve haworth came up with the idea to implant magnets under the skin to hold innovative piercings without success – until they noticed that the implants generated a sense of magnetic and electric fields through the induced motion as interpreted by the finger’s touch receptors. you can feel power lines, […]
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blow-up museum
inflatable technologies usa makes self-erecting buildings for emergency shelter and military applications. they also developed this museum from inflatable modules
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pneumatic architecture
while inflatable buildings have been around for a while, they rarely take advantage of the natural dynamism of pneumatics. since festo’s original pneumatic building (top), inflatable building members have been used for dynamic structures such as muscle (middle, via interactivearchitecture) and the proposed whowhatwhenair (bottom) which is being fabricated for the mit campus as we […]
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digital camouflage
in 2004 the us armed forces switched to new camouflage patterns designed according by computers using fractal-based algorithms that create large and small-scale textures using only four colors of dye. these have a 40% lower chance of being detected from 200 meters away that traditional olive drab. guy cramer “designed” these patterns for hyperstealth, they […]
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sensory chairs
gaetano pesce designed the UP chairs in 1969 – they are made of polyurethane foam upholstered in fabric, shipped vacuum-packed in flat boxes (left bottom) that self-inflate when you take them out.
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soft ceiling 2
my friend alexandra ginsberg sent me this link to another sensory experience: a glowing ceiling made of sheep intestines by julia lohmann. isn’t it beautiful? and delicious. a whole new material interpretation of the soft ceiling and the cloud ceiling for sensory rooms.
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soft ceiling
my old friend zach nagle sent me this link to an installation at skidmore college by lee boronson similar to the cloud ceiling in sensory decor – beautiful inflated plastic forms like clouds with rays of materialized sunlight poking through.
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