January 24th and March 13th 2023 : Communicating Ideas¶
Byt Kate Armstrong
You’re only as radical as you are accessible.
Humans - giving meaning to meaningless things. Our responsibility as designer to give our innovations meaning - we are responsible for designing the object but also the intangible meaning that goes with it + to make it accessible.
Assignment: Assemble your personnal brand kit.
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Purpose : Work in the hybrid space between design, science and art to explore how we can design as ecologies, rather than for individuals.
Vision: Comitted to for a world where human impact on the biosphere is intentional and supportive of the ecologies we belong to.
Mission Statement: Work on projects that decenter the human and put us back into our larger contexts.
2.Personal Brand kit :
- Something that represents you: Rock from the desert
- Fonts ( Diatype Medium + Monument Grotek Mono Regular)
- Colours (Black, White and Earth Tones (Soil Brown, Tree Green and River Blue)
- Values (Divergent, Laconic, Empathetic)
3. Minimum Viable Message about your intervention/ research.
The Interspecies Tarot is a wholesome set of questions for practionners to work (as much as possible) in alignment with other species .
The Altered States XXX is a process for managing transformation towards non-human states.
Future Cravings is an interdisciplinary dinning experience where the tableware and cuisine are made of the same ingredients with a special focus on food waste and biodesigned species. They focus on specific subject reflected in the dinner’s materiality which provokes divergent insight.
This a new methodology for climate action, based on the original problem solving forum: the dinner table.
Electric Skin is a new, self powering material. It generate electricity from the humidity in the air.
Our vision is of a radically sustainable energy future, where our power generation and our electronics are growable and compostable. Where our electronic devices have a new materiality, complex, textured, and perhaps even alive.
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