Back to the Futurist: Anab Jain
The fourth post of the Back to the Futurist series is dedicated to Anab Jain. Previous in Series: Liam Young Who is Anab Jain? Anab is a designer, entrepreneur, TED Fellow and the founder of Superflux, a multidisciplinary design company based in London, UK and Ahmedabad, India. Anab’s passion is creating opportunities and building tools that can lead us...
Waterless Washing Machine
When I first stumbled across Elie Ahovi’s brilliant idea of a waterless washing machine, the professionality of the campaign made me truly believe this was on the market already. Imagine! A more time efficient and ecologically conscious solution to one of the most hideous household chores that many of us endure day-in-day-out. Imagine having the...
Back to the Futurist: Mitchell Joachim
Who is Mitchell Joachim? Joachim once said: “The ideas that we proffer are based on off-the-shelf existing technologies. We just change the solution-bases and do things that aren’t necessarily as obvious. We don’t have a problem with thinking about science fiction – in fact we actually embrace it.” To kick-start the Back to the Futurist...
Now and When: Harnessing Rising Sea Levels
Now and When, an exhibition curated by John Gollings, Ivan Rijavec and Craig Bremner, was Australia’s response to the 2010 Venice Biennale theme ‘people meet in architecture’. The exhibition was composed in two parts. The first was a photographic essay ‘NOW’ by esteemed Australian photographer John Gollings documenting the catastrophic, yet strangely beautiful reality of ‘digging up the west to build...
Ark: The Back-up Plan
First posted on the UT by ‘Russian Ark’ by Nicolas Sampson. As climate change increases and the predictability of weather pattens declines, how will will cope with the increasingly extreme meteorological conditions? If a Wall⋅E, hyper-commercialized starliner is unrealistic in our lifetimes, then perhaps the Russian-made ‘Ark’ is. All images via Remi Studio. The ‘Ark’...
The Thrifty Soap User
Although the introductory post of this site was a little more grand in size, I figured it best to bring the tone down to a more personal scale. I promise that the fluctuations between global outlooks and bathroom frugality will remain under wraps as best I can. However, perhaps this is the appropriate place to...
