We recently posted RCA grad Martin Postler's Life/Machine project, scenes that illustrate uncomfortable universal life situations through unnatural-feeling human-robot interactions. Postler and colleague Ian Ferguson have joined forces in the launch of their new technology-focused design think tank, PostlerFerguson. Great name. Their debut project as a team, "The Future on Your Plate," explores how we can discuss how global issues affect our domestic futures through the way we cook and is currently on display at Designersblock in London.
Our relationship with food shapes both our personal lives and our global environment through how we consume it, cook it, grow it and distribute it. Shared meals and celebrations form some of our most basic cultural patterns. The way in which how we eat and cook shapes the spaces we live in and the tools we surround ourselves with. Modern systems of food production and distribution shape global economies. Agricultural technology reworks entire ecosystems.
The projects presented in The Future on Your Plate trace a line from global social and environmental changes to future domestic environments and cultural rituals associated with food. Rather than proposing utopian solutions, these projects concern themselves with asking what compromises will we have to make in the face of a radically changed future, and what positive possibilities will we find hidden there.
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