So I know its slack, but here I am finally writing up my thoughts on this year’s Royal College of Art Show. That’s what you get when you travel across the country every weekend. On the whole, I have to say there weren’t as many working prototypes that as I had hoped for, but I guess that’s always the case. I guess it just never occurred to me when I was at Uni to have illustrations or mock-ups done for me. Wow that would have saved me a load of work. I could have pined away at the idea for even longer. I picked up a load of postcards to help me remember, and I’m just going through them.
Sascha Pohflepp who I know worked on Social Collider with Karsten Schmidt worked with Daisy Ginsberg produced a look at future-tech, creating a scenario where the prohibitive cost of energy has meant that the DNA of plants is re-coded to produce biological artifacts that can then be assembled into products. Each of these berry things have nozzles inside.
“Using biology for the production of consumer goods has reversed the idea of industrial standards, introducing diversity and softness into a realm that once was dominated by heavy manufacturing.”
The idea of mass-producing through farm-factories is great, to change the consumer ideal that all products should be the same would be great. I do it myself sometimes – root to the back of the shelf to look for the most pristine, untouched by human hands box of whatever. I’d love to see a more diverse and flexible approach to manufacture, and to think everything would be biodegradable too. Who’s gonna produce it in the flesh first?
Pics via Daisy Ginsberg.