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Johanna Schmeer’s biologically inspired domestic environment includes seven products that produce food through photosynthesis.
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Looking like something out of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle, designer Johanna Schmeer’s very strange set of interactive edible products are made from enzyme-enhanced bioplastics. Bioplastic Fantastic is Schmeer’s MA graduation project for this year’s Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art in London. It is designed to be part of a “biologically-influenced space” where each “product” is based on the biological processes of living organisms. Together they are intended to provide all the nutrients needed for a human to survive: water, sugar, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals. The project suggests new ways of returning to naturally-inspired, sensual forms in our domestic environment. “The loss of the natural sensuality of traditional food is substituted by a designed, artificial sensuality”, Schmeer says of her living devices – food for thought in the speculative world of biosynthetic future scenarios. (ssl)
Prototype for a product to generate airborne vitamins, modelled after Lactobacillus bacteria.
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The same vitamin-producing product prototype after decay.
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Johanna Schmeer is a designer and researcher based in London and Berlin. Bioplastic Fantastic is her MA graduation project from the Design Interventions course at the Royal College of Art in London. Her practice involves the creation of future narratives about the social, ethical and cultural impact of new technologies on everyday life, described through designed objects and interactions. She also plans and runs workshops and events, as an alternative or complementary way to engage an audience in future scenarios.
johannaschmeer.com
Prototype for a product to produce sugar and oxygen, modelled after Cyanobacteria.
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Johanna Schmeer is a designer and researcher based in London and Berlin, who completed her MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London. Her practice involves the creation of future narratives about the social, ethical and cultural impact of new technologies on everyday life, described through designed objects and interactions. She also plans and organises workshops and events, as an alternative or complementary way to engage an audience in future scenarios.
Prototype for a product to generate protein based on the bacteria Caulobacter crescentus.
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