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Figure 52: ‘Holy Ghost’, 2006. FutureFactories
Commission 1. ‘Holy Ghost’ (2006) by Lincolnshire-based FutureFactories 87
explores notions of metamorphosis, symbiosis and parasitism. In this work
Lionel T. Dean continues the FutureFactories 88 theme of organic growth with a
design that is in a constant state of evolution. The back and arms of an iconic
chair (Louis Ghost designed by Philippe Starck and produced by Kartell) have
been replaced to create a new reading of both an everyday object and an iconic
object of desire. Dean has developed these new forms algorithmically and
output two ‘hard copies’ of the design using SLS® technology. In the exhibition
alongside this pair of chairs was a suspended Perspex screen onto which the
rule-based, parametric metamorphosis of the chair design was rear-projected
(life-sized and happening in real-time).
Figure 53: ‘Holy Ghost’ (left) and ‘Holy Ghost Sketch’ (right), 2006.
FutureFactories
This work was the subject of the largest amount of negotiation between Fast-uk
and folly. This was the one work in the exhibition that Fast-uk was committed
to having and that folly was not convinced by. The rough sketch (Figure 53,
87 http://www.futurefactories.com
88 FutureFactories is a digital manufacturing concept for the mass individualisation of products. Dean is Designer in
Residence at Huddersfield University.
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