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ight) submitted by this practitioner with the initial proposal was partially the
cause of this. By its nature this work cannot be accurately represented until it
has been completed.
‘Holy Ghost’ was the work in the exhibition that received the most attention
from the press and was mentioned at least eight times. This work was also most
cited (31%) by the other practitioners that were interviewed as the strongest
work in the exhibition. One visitor in the audience survey indicated that ‘Holy
Ghost’ was the thing they liked most in the exhibition. This work received a
considerable amount of in-kind support from the Newbury-based rapid
prototyping company 3T RPD Ltd. The price of the sintered parts was more
than the funding available. This work is now being used as a case study 89 for
promotional purposes by this company. Since the exhibition ‘Holy Ghost’ was
shown in the exhibition ‘Digitalability’ at the Designmai Forum, Mitte, Berlin,
May 12 – May 20, 2007 90 .
Commission 2. ‘What’s Cooking Grandma?’ (2006) by London-based Human
Beans 91 aims to popularise a new genre of documentary video clip - the
‘Grandma Recipe’. Human Beans is collaboration between advertising creative
and designer Mickael Charbonnel and design strategist Chris Vanstone. Human
Beans make fictional products by hacking commercial culture and design new
services by working with real people. Their work is disseminated through spam,
media, on shop shelves and in exhibitions. They assert that technologies which
were once bleeding-edge and the domain of professionals are now commonplace
and affordable.
89 http://www.3trpd.co.uk/pdf/case-studies/Holy%20Ghost%20Chair.pdf
90 http://www.designmai.de/cgi-bin/designmai2007.pl/Digitalability/Essay
91 http://www.humanbeans.net and http://www.whatscookinggrandma.net
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