Design for real world&

The "Design for the Real World" exhibition in Royal College of Art has the same name with the famous book written by Victor Papanek. This gallery projects include 15 people-centred design programs by the Helen Hamlyn Associates 2012 with 3 theme -- Age&Ability, Work&City and Health&Patient Safety. At the same time, this gallery also hold another exhibition with similar topic: Sustain Show & Award 2012.  It is showcasing the best sustainability project by this year's 35 graduating students.

We pick two interesting design from the Sustain Show & Award.

Esource by Hal Watts  

Esource is a bicycle-powered cable recycling system for small-scale recyclers in developing countries, designed to be manufactured, sold and maintained by local workshops. Un-burnt copper can be sold for 20% more than burnt, providing operators with a better income and healthier working conditions.

This product has a very interesting mechanism and its attractive is that it has a very simple and intuitive design. Everything needed to recycle ewaste is contained on the bycicle. It is a very functional product.

I wanna deliver a Shark...

by Ai Hasegawa

Ai Hasegawa study in Design Interaction. Unlike the functional and practical Esource program, this design seems more experimental. It tend to solve the over-population and following environmental crisis by the suggestion "Why don't you get pregnant of other species?". Er... I know it sounds crazy, but as it point out a series of questions, like "Why do we need more human?", "Can we build other kinds of relationship with animals?", "How much does we care about other species?", I think the design can really make people re-think about the environmental problem and the different effects to nature of different life styles.