In reviewing this year’s design highlights, I came across a quite disturbing set of seven portraits originally presented at the Dutch Design Week this Fall. Corpus 2.0 by Marcia Nolte illustrates how the human body could adjust itself to the design of products, including a hole in the lips for smokers (above) and an extended shoulder for holding a phone (below). Product design as body enhancement.
The photos present a provocative counter-thesis to the much acclaimed “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibit at MOMA: what if it‘s not products that need to adjust to elastic minds, but rather our bodies that need to become more elastic in order to cope with ever-more demanding products?
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