Fat
Cristina Bilsland investigates "mundane" issues and responds to them through product design. She has been developping projects in response to obesity, eating disorders and obsessions.
My favourite among her works is GO-DO, an inflatable polyurethane doll inspired in the current debates on child obesity.
Today, even though they are larger than their counterparts in the 50s, children are still given 50s shaped Barbie dolls to play with. If given the opportunity to decide whether their doll was to be slim or fat, which would they choose? Would they want their doll to look like them? Should we give a child that choice?
The doll is manipulated through the injection of a liquid into its hollow body, which changes its shape from very slim to obese (and vice-versa).
Spotted at the RCA 2005 Show.