Projects from Patrick Stevenson-Keating
name
Patrick Stevenson-Keating (paddys011)
location
http://www.pstevensonkeating.co.uk
country
united kingdom
university
University of Dundee
department
Product Design
university address
University of Dundee, Nethergate,
DD1 4HN Dundee,
university country
united kingdom
url
id
0010761
title
Tea Machines
professor(s)
Elio Caccavale
rank
76
tags
product design industrial design 3d design
year of making
2010
uploaded
2010-04-27 20:46:06
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The Tea Machines are contraptions to aid the process of time wasting. “Wasting time is doing the simple things the most complicated way.”
The Tea Machines project examines this statement and extrapolates it into our real life environment, by creating three devices which take the simple, everyday procrastination tool of making tea, and turn it into an elaborate performance. The act of using the Tea Machines is in itself very gratifying, and may even be more enjoyable than the resulting cup of tea. The objects, highly impractical, question what it means to “waste time”, and attempt to change how it is currently viewed in todayʼs society. According to Dr. Nagy, a leading psychologist and the Dundee University Student Support Officer, stress is a huge health and motivational factor. Idle time is a necessity many people overlook or are reprimanded for. Maybe we should embrace the simple things we do to waste time, and revel in our idle moments.
