Made up of old music cassettes and walkie-talkies, the prototype offers an analogue version of forums and chats

The device bypasses modern communication systems, cellular networks and internet, while maintaining the same logic. It can therefore be used in countries which do not have a telematic infrastructure

“The device communicates a criticism on the topic of data collection. By creating the experience of internet by outdated technologies, it suggests a scenario where the world wide web becomes antiquated and new technologies has yet to come because big data”

Let’s imagine if archaeologist of the future looks at our time. Apart from an economic system that revolves around consuming and producing in a context of globalization, what would they see if we zoom-in on production?

The designer initially established a production criterion of 5 minutes / 5 euros / 500 grams. Heim has created an archive of various shapes and objects, which she uses to make casts. The resulting objects become the fragments of a single production system.

The material culture of a place – in this case the City of Istanbul – forms part of her geography and tradition. Here, design is seen as an instrument to tell a story.

The digital Shaman belongs simultaneously in two realities: physical and digital. Its aim is to create a bridge between the two dimensions

“Our bodies and minds are digitalised from pre-birth. We are forced into the network to exist eternally. It is therefore essential that we learn how and where we float through this realm in order to embrace both realities in the hope that we can once again exist grounded and whole.”

The project invites participants to become aware of our hybrid condition and moves towards an integration of these two realities.

Unku is the result of research into global logistics and on the local dynamics of markets in Instanbul.

Jurk conceived the project as a collection and stratification of experiences.

“The project translates the historic to the modern system and intends to incite a new consumer mentality to widen their own choices and completing the end product with their own material experience in combination with a support infrastructure” ha spiegato Jurk

The project examines the ritual of the toast, a gesture of cordiality, celebration and political negotiation. The designer analyses this form of communication and completes it with specific objects. Design is complementary to verbal and gestural language.

“Why, exactly, do we take a moment to clink glasses before we drink?”

Filling the glasses, drinking and toasting as a sign of “agreement reached”: prototypes and performances form part of a silent play of strategies.

The designer has created a manufacturing model to be positioned directly within shops, taking its cue from the unique qualities of the buyer to create the required object.

Daude tells us: “All theories that are locating the human in the centre of design are inventing and creating a new standardised, idealised and artificial human. Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man or Le Corbusier's Modulor consider the human body as the reference measure for design and architecture, creating a representation of a norm – a uniform and sterilised silhouette that is erases all diversity, characters, peculiarities and uniqueness of the human body”

Let's create our own standards!

“There is a frequency range that humans focus better on: the one closer to human voices. The other sound frequencies are still audible of course, but not entirely understandable when they are accumulated in our environments. What if we translate these frequencies into more understandable and organised sounds?”

The prototype listens, translates and stores the sounds which accumulate in space and which often cannot be heard by the human ear

The designer has developed a modular system, designed as an organism which over time can change and grown, and which has a heart, a brain and limbs. The project manipulates sound and makes it visible and generates new sound landscapes which could not previously be perceived

The project examines the act of sitting in public and renders it a dynamic and playful act. Weidner studies the manufacturing process and the new relationships that a seat can generate.

The bench is also examined in its digital dimension: it is geo-localised and allows for interaction with other users located in different environments

“It explores the possibility to produce the same bench in different ways depending on the profile, skills and knowledge of the user and to allow he/she/they to purchase a fully constructed bench or one to be self-made” says Weidner