Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Yet another reason why I am in love with The Netherlands: Design Collectives.
Nacho is part of AtelierDorp, a group of designers who live and work together in an old church.
http://nachocarbonell.com/
The best part?
An image of a friend on facebook- But look at that chandelier! I want to make one- many different elements, similar size crushed bubbles in glass- if each compartment is blown with a knuckle, they could all be wired together in bunches. Hmmm...
Menstration Machine
An interesting blend of design, sculpture, performance art, video, and music
...not to mention gender!
Check out Sputniko's website for more projects like the "Sushiborg Yukari" which is a bizzare mix of Tarentino and Nyotai Mori, and the "Penis Cybernetique" which responds to your heartrate, allowing women to grow a boner. Very cool designer.
It’s 2010, so why are humans still menstruating?’
"As a female designer I had one big question I wanted to solve.
The pill free, bleeding interval was devised when the contraceptive pill first came out, only because it was felt by doctors that women would find having no periods too unacceptable (since the 1960s, taking the pill continuously could have removed periods all together) The doctors may think that women are psychologically attached to their periods, but only humans, apes and bats out of all mammals need to bleed monthly for their reproductive cycle. What does Menstruation mean, biologically, culturally and historically, to humans? Who might choose to have it, and how might they have it?
Fitted with a blood dispensing mechanism and lower-abdomen-stimulating electrodes, the Menstruation Machine is a device which simulates the pain and bleeding of an average 5 day menstruation process of a human (well…I have done my best to simulate my own, at least).
The machine is not worn only by men, but also by women when menstruation may become obsolete in the future and the process becomes a mere ritual of gender and identity. The music video illustrates just one example of many possibilities of how and by whom this machine can be used."
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