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ABOUT US --- PROJECTS --- EXHIBITIONS --- TEXTS --- LECTURES & CONFERENCES --- BOOKS & LIMITED EDITIONS Show all projects DO YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE EXISTING NORMAL? 2007/08 S.O.C.D Risk Watch Project info >> Dunne & Raby / Michael Anastassiades Design can only follow our needs and desires, it can't create them. If our desires remain unimaginative and practical, then that is what design will be. In this project we are hoping for a time when we will have more complex and subtle everyday needs than we do today. These objects are designed in anticipation of that time. Patiently waiting. Maybe they are utopian. 1. The Statistical Clock checks the BBC website for technologically mediated fatalities: car, train, plane, etc, and pulls them into a database. Each technology has its own channel. The clock checks it every minute or so, and each time it finds a new one it speaks it out loud... 1, 2, 3, etc. 2. S.O.C.D (Sexual Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is for people who enjoy porn but feel

Dunne & Raby / Michael Anastassiades Design can only follow our needs and desires, it can't create them. If our desires remain unimaginative and practical, then that is what design will be. In this project we are hoping for a time when we will have more complex and subtle everyday needs than we do today. These objects are designed in anticipation of that time. Patiently waiting. Maybe they are utopian. 1. The Statistical Clock checks the BBC website for technologically mediated fatalities: car, train, plane, etc, and pulls them into a database. Each technology has its own channel. The…

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