Page 42 of Design for our future selves 2003 Awards by Helen Hamlyn Research Centre - Royal College of Art

40 Will Brook Ismini Samanidou optical tools A teaching tool for school pupils aged 10-16 to explore the properties of light, based on the use of pinhole photography. The resource teaches skills to harness the simplest of materials into an expressive medium. A poster that folds into a camera and a mobile darkroom are used to demonstrate the concept. Elio Caccavale utility pets This object allows the user to smoke cigarettes in his/her home without creating passive smoke that would damage the health of their utility pet an animal raised with its owners genes implanted so that itfs organs can be harvested if the owner falls ill. The project aims to communicate the social, moral and scientific implications to a wider audience.

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