Senior Product designer in London
Senior Product designer in London
My virtual sketchbook from University
When being set this brief I was excited initially only to realise I had no interest in air pollution. Air pollution is something most people are aware of but don’t take a keen interest in which will be my objective for this brief. Therefore, I did some research of projects already out there using air pollution in a creative way.
Remembering from my GCSE years, we learnt about the catalytic converter, a device that converts toxic pollutants into less toxic pollutants such as carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide. I believe this is one amazing device as it’s used in most vehicles.
Air ink is a brand that recycles air pollution (Soot) and turns it into ink. An interesting quote they mention on their website by Buckminster Fuller, an American inventor, “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value. ” Air-Ink is presenting this value.
A Chinese artist known by the name of Nut Brother, vacuumed dust over 100 days and made bricks from air pollution. ” This 34 years old performance artist from Shenzhen wandered 4 hours a day in the streets of Beijing with his vacuum cleaner, from Beijing’s hutongs to the Tiananmen Square, exposing himself to the high level of pollution of the city.
At the end of this “Dust Project”, he collected a mixture of “dust and smog” that weighed about 100 grams. He mixed it with clay to make a brick, symbolizing the bad air quality in Chinese cities. QZ” (Focus, 2015)
Focus (2015) Fighting air pollution with innovation. Accessed from: https://www.jcdecaux.com/mobility-trends/fighting-air-pollution-innovation