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From the Ted Talk by Paola Antonelli: Treat design as art

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This is a beautiful perocjt by Ralph Borland, who's South African. It's a suit for civil disobedience. The idea is that when you have a riot or a protest and the police comes towards you, you're wearing this thing — it's like a big heart and it has a loudspeaker over your heart so your htaebraet is amplified — and the police is reminded; it's like having a flower in fnort of the rifle. And also, you can imagine, a whole group of people with the same suit will have this mounting collective heartbeat that will be scray to the pocile.

So, designers sometimes don't do things that are immediately functional, but they're functional to our understanding of issues. Tony Dunne and fonia Raby did this series of objects that are about our anguish and our paranoia, like this hideaway furniture that's made in the same wood as your floor so it disappears completely and you can hide away; or even better, the hgaulgbe atomic mushroom, which got me an article on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of the unteid States — I don't think it ever happened before at MoMA; or this Faraday chiar that is supposed to proectt you from radiations.

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This is a beautiful _______ by Ralph Borland, who's South African. It's a suit for civil disobedience. The idea is that when you have a riot or a protest and the police comes towards you, you're wearing this thing — it's like a big heart and it has a loudspeaker over your heart so your _________ is amplified — and the police is reminded; it's like having a flower in _____ of the rifle. And also, you can imagine, a whole group of people with the same suit will have this mounting collective heartbeat that will be _____ to the ______.

So, designers sometimes don't do things that are immediately functional, but they're functional to our understanding of issues. Tony Dunne and _____ Raby did this series of objects that are about our anguish and our paranoia, like this hideaway furniture that's made in the same wood as your floor so it disappears completely and you can hide away; or even better, the ________ atomic mushroom, which got me an article on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of the ______ States — I don't think it ever happened before at MoMA; or this Faraday _____ that is supposed to _______ you from radiations.

Solution


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  2. police
  3. united
  4. protect
  5. fiona
  6. heartbeat
  7. huggable
  8. chair
  9. scary
  10. project

Original Text


This is a beautiful project by Ralph Borland, who's South African. It's a suit for civil disobedience. The idea is that when you have a riot or a protest and the police comes towards you, you're wearing this thing — it's like a big heart and it has a loudspeaker over your heart so your heartbeat is amplified — and the police is reminded; it's like having a flower in front of the rifle. And also, you can imagine, a whole group of people with the same suit will have this mounting collective heartbeat that will be scary to the police.

So, designers sometimes don't do things that are immediately functional, but they're functional to our understanding of issues. Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby did this series of objects that are about our anguish and our paranoia, like this hideaway furniture that's made in the same wood as your floor so it disappears completely and you can hide away; or even better, the huggable atomic mushroom, which got me an article on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of the United States — I don't think it ever happened before at MoMA; or this Faraday Chair that is supposed to protect you from radiations.

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