PROJECTS.
SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS.
This project challenged the role of designers and questioned the objects/designs that were/are being released and how it informs the world around us. To consider this, a speculative world-building approach was taken to understand the ethical complexities of our ideas. Taking unrealised, rejected patents we considered a world where these patents had significant ramifications. We contemplated and imagined social, technological, environmental, economical, political factors and aspects of value (STEEPV) to gain a rounded understanding of our object/patent (a bird nappy). This allowed us to critique the current systems of society allowing us to fully realise a realistic specultative world. This was achieved through futures methodologies like horizon scanning and understanding weak signals which were then integrated into imagined futures, or worlds. To acualise our research we created a series of videos, posters and an ethnographic report. (for Part Two of this project please scroll to the bottom of the page).
Part Two.
Revisiting this project allowed me to dive deeper into the narrative of the farmer and find a ‘solution’ to the struggles faced being in a bird-based community - primarily being that birds would eat the seed of the crop. A machine was designed to collect the bird’s waste for fertiliser while remaining accommodating to the species. Many factors were considered while designing this machine for example the current challenges farmers face with changing climate, the changing routes of migratory birds and modern farming techniques.
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