Adam Nathaniel Furman will be spending the year populating a cabinet of curiosities containing products made entirely from 3D printing and slip casting. The project follows a fictional journey of an individual’s intimate and obsessive search for identity.
Eunhee Jo‘s research is looking at the surface quality of things. She will develop new surfaces made of fabric or paper to be embedded with technology, and use this embedded material to create a light and hi-fi system that offer new encounters with everyday items, thereby creating new aesthetic possibilities.
Chloe Meineck is developing a memory box to be used by people affected by dementia or memory loss. Meineck aims for the box to be used by individuals and the families of those who have a confused or fading sense of personal memory and identity.
Thomas Thwaites will be looking at how personal data collated through the internet can inform people about themselves and their own identity, and is creating a series of products that might be used to help change our behaviour.
Also new at the Design Museum is a virtual tour of the museum’s future home in Kensington, via an online platform called Stickyworld. Visitors can virtually explore the new museum through immersive 360-degree renders, panoramic images and plans. Users can access the new Design Museum on terminals in the museum at Shad Thames and via designmuseum.stickyworld.com. The Design Museum aims to move into its new home in 2015.
