Projects from Nelly Ben Hayoun
name
Nelly Ben Hayoun (nellyben)
location
country
united kingdom
university
Royal College of Art
department
Interaction Design
university address
Kensington Gore
SW7 2 EU London
university country
united kingdom
url
http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk
Nelly Ben Hayoun recently graduated from the Royal College of Art’s Design Interactions MA. The department, lead by Prof. Anthony Dunne explores alternative realities and possible futures as a more narrative and engaging way of doing design. From a textile design and fine art background, she has worked and done performances in Paris, Tokyo and London. She is interested in how we can use design and science in our everyday life to make it more thrilling, creative, passionate and extreme. She trusts in the creative potential of human passion and fantasy. Hacking and experimenting with the everyday are her favorite hobbies, as well as trying to explode boundaries between science, design, art, amateurs and professionals. Her work featured in ICON magazine, Glass, Core 77, Evening standard to New scientist. Nelly Ben hayoun is also part of Disruptive Thinking (www.disruptivethinking.org) which is exploring responses to our current turbulent social conditions, enabling us to visualize and understand what the future may hold.
id
0007544
title
The Physics of the Impossible
professor(s)
James Auger
rank
73
tags
year of making
2009
project url
uploaded
2010-02-04 18:09:50
downloads
The Physics of The Impossible is about contemporary physics, at the crossroads between science and science fiction, testing our perceptions about reality and scientific potential. This interstitial space has the potential to engage our imagination, inspire dreams and extreme experimentations.
Here, you are the hobbyist-amateur maker who decides the possible, the believable, and the alternative. You are the astronaut in the living room, generating dark energy from pigeons’ eggs in the kitchen and colliding atoms in the bathroom...
The project is made of three elements: "The Soyuz chair" which allows you to lift off from your living room,
"Did I generate Dark Energy in my kitchen sink?",which allows you to create Dark Energy in your sink with mashmallows and
"And from two pigeons' eggs Dark Energy will be born..." , a project which allows you to create the unknown in your bathroom...
