Virginia Gardiner

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2008

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  http://www.excrextra.com/

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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?

• 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

• 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

• Awards

• Winner, Dyson Award, 2007; Runner Up, Imperial College Ideas Challenge, 2007