Virginia Gardiner
MA work
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Urban Loo Concept 16, Virginia Gardiner
Polymer clay, mixed mediaUrban Loo Concept 16, Virginia Gardiner
Polymer clay, mixed media
Design creates expectations.
Among the achievements brought to us by modernity, civilisation has learned to live in a state of complete alienation from its own waste. This year I have tried to find a design solution that changes and refreshes that relationship. In the toilet, industrial design has a most intimate connection with human behaviour. Until the Victorian age and subsequent widespread plumbing infrastructures, human waste was a commodity. Today, drinking water is scarce.
Imagine if today's toilet converted our excrement back into a commodity, without water: how would this change our lives and world views?
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Design
Programme
MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2008
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Contact
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07758 575462
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Design creates expectations.
Among the achievements brought to us by modernity, civilisation has learned to live in a state of complete alienation from its own waste. This year I have tried to find a design solution that changes and refreshes that relationship. In the toilet, industrial design has a most intimate connection with human behaviour. Until the Victorian age and subsequent widespread plumbing infrastructures, human waste was a commodity. Today, drinking water is scarce.
Imagine if today's toilet converted our excrement back into a commodity, without water: how would this change our lives and world views?
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Degrees
- Higher Certificate Furniture Design and Manufacture, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Letterfrack, Republic of Ireland, 2006; BA Comparative Literature, Stanford University, CA, USA, 1999
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Experience
- Furniture Production Assistant for Established and Sons, London, 2007; Freelance Writer, The New York Times, New York, USA, 2005; Model Maker, Gemmiti Model Art, San Francisco, USA, 2001-5; Editor, Dwell, San Francisco, USA, 2000-5
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Awards
- Winner, Dyson Award, 2007; Runner Up, Imperial College Ideas Challenge, 2007