Material Legacy

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Interactive Installation

Future Scenario

As the true cost of our consumption lies in tomorrow, today’s misuse and mismanagement lead to an exhausted and polluted planet in 2030.

Set in 2030, Material Legacy is a speculative project in which researchers cooperate with a deep learning algorithm to make the full lifecycle of products visible to consumers via augmented animations. A positive impact on our collective decisions is inspired through the immediate experience of long-term material intelligence. The visual information layer added to objects generates a desirable sustainable aesthetic, enabling people to encounter the true legacy of particular materials, promoting new ways of sustainable living.

Future Scenario Video

Interactive Installation

Material Legacy draws attention to the actual capacities and potentials behind material lifetimes.

‘One of the most significant aspects of material intelligence is that it can help us to make better choices about how we live on the planet.’ –

Glenn Adamson

The interactive installation exposes the visitor to experience Material Legacy and therefore embrace them with long-term material intelligence. Similar pairs of objects, made from different materials underline the tremendous difference between material lifetime.

Interactive Installation

Video Documentation

The visualisations of material stories are based on microscopic images and videos and animated through different forms of particle animations such as l-systems.

Material Stories

Particle Animations

Collaborations             

Sound 

Christofer James

Voice

Silvana Maimone

Thomas Deacon

Ashley Zhang

Andrew Dhesi, Elisa Frenay, Annabella Randel, Felix Scholder, Petra Sohnius

Open Cell London
www.opencell.bio

Special thanks to Open Cell London for providing their laboratory!

Royal College of Art