This past November ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne hosted an exhibition entitled “Low-Tech Factory” which showed a selection of machines designed by Bachelor’s and Master’s students of Industrial Design and Products at a workshop led by designers Chris Kabel and Tomás Král. (via Vimeo) I found these to be fun and interesting project related to ...
These five objects are common domestic furniture or machines. They are designed to be powered by microbial fuel cells. They trap insects or small rodents that are found in the house and convert them into energy that can be used to run the device. Mouse Trap Coffee Table (fueled by mice that go after crumbs) ...
This is a project that embodies a lot of the things I’ve been researching: mechanical energy, low-tech materials, environmental sensing, and online data aggregation. Here’s a description from the website: “~Flow, by Owl Project and Ed Carter, was a tidemill – a floating building on the River Tyne that generated its own power using a ...
timesquare lullaby machine: light sensors trigger music box or alarm clock (city that never sleeps?) bridges connecting boroughs… coney island freak show, board walk turn-over of stores/restaurants every time turnover happens, change something in sculpture (track address/phone number changes?) future-proof NY: city gentrification flooding? (global warming) terrorism? future-proof NY: citizens ...
Jean Tinguely: “Rotozaza 2” Jean Tinguely: “Homage to New York” Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (1960) from Stephen Cornford on Vimeo. Theo Jansen: “Strandbeest”
