©2010 Transplant / James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau.

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The British design duo James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, both Transplant Coaches in Speculative Design and Robotics, take part in the Ideal Lab´ theme Longer Participation. The 26th of July 2010 they held a lecture on their work, with focus on the project “Afterlife”. The projects of Auger/Loizeau focus less on “bringing products to market, making them desirable and therefore sellable”, instead they develop and disseminate speculative and critical products and services in the hope “to instigate a broader analysis of what it means to exist in a technology rich environment both today and in the near future.”
In Transplant Auger/Loizeau worked on a new series of products within the Longer Participation theme.

©2010 Transplant / Lecture Auger-Loizeau.

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The “Afterlife” project of James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau “offers a technologically mediated service providing a tangible expression of life after death. Under normal circumstances after death, the human body would be assimilated back into the natural system. The Afterlife device intervenes during this process to harness the chemical potential and convert it into usable electrical energy via a microbial fuel cell – a device that uses an electromechanical reaction to generate electricity from organic matter.
This electricity is contained within a familiar dry cell battery.”

©2010 Transplant / Afterlife objects.

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During their project and the lecture, people were asked what they would run with the electricity of a loved one. The objects which people chose were shown at Transplant and opened up a discussion about the project among the participants.

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The interest in Auger/Loizeau´s project “Afterlife” was immediate and found its reflection the day after the lecture at Transplant on the front page of the regional newspaper, which at once brought the project to a bigger audience.
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The “Afterlife” project will be presented at Transplant during the exhibition of “Longer Participation”, which opens the 14.08.2010.

© 2010 Transplant / Strategical debriefing.

NTE is an energy company from northern Norway. Since a period of several months NTE have gone through a strategic process coached by Truls Paulsen and Mads Bruun Høy. The work has resulted in several innovative business ideas for the future of renewable energy.

The NTE project group with coaches came to Transplant for a two day visualisation workshop the 27-28/05. All the Ralston & Bau designers where involved in the pre-research and then designing together with the NTE team during two full days. The aim was to make the business ideas real through design and then be able to make decisions about what projects to pursue in the future.

© 2010 Transplant / Truls Paulsen, Cand. Psychl. is a Transplant Coach.

© 2010 Transplant / The Transplanteurs in working mood.

© 2010 Transplant / Dialog session outside.

© 2010 Transplant / Finalizing the design together.

© 2010 Transplant / Three course dinner in the sunset.

© 2010 Culinaire Design / by Marc Bretillot.

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We are happy to present two books just launched about the work of three of our Transplant Coaches. Former furniture designer, now head of the culinairy laboratory at the design school in Reims (ESAD), Marc Bretillot just released his first monography, ‘Culinaire design‘, by Thierry de Beaumont at Alternatives publishing house, which chronicles his projects of the past ten years for the food industry or in the contemporary art world. Marc’s Disappearance performance in Transplant august 2009 is published with four pages. Marc Bretillot is a Transplant Coach on the theme “Food design”.

© 2010 Culinaire Design / by Marc Bretillot.
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Stoffel Kuenen presented in the May 2010 newsletter, just launched his book “Metamorphosis”(metamorphic fashion design), co-writed with Ambra Trotto. This book focuses on the Italian fashion system as an example of a sector wrought with tradition, saper fare and high quality that forms a fertile ground for a human centered application of the latest technologies in all aspects of the production chain, ranging from strategic and marketing aspects, to processes and tools of production, from materials used and sustainable strategies to the skills of the designer. The user literally and figuratively forms the center of the fashion product. Hence fashion products are presented, in which a subtile application of state-of- the-art technologies extend functional, expressive and communicative properties, resulting in metamorphic fashion.

© 2010 / Editor: Stoffel Kuenen / Co Author: Ambra Trotto.

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The products we use shape the way we view the world, the way we interact and perceive it and others. This places a delicate responsibility in the hands of me as designer, as I literally and figuratively help shape the world. Not only do the function, form and behavior of the products do so; the way they are constituted, the materials used, the manufacturing techniques, the place and thus the social circumstances of manufacture, all those in many ways frame the way a user sees himself in this world. Both authors are Transplant Coaches™. Ambra Trotto on the theme “Design & Ethics” and Stoffel Kuenen “Wearable technology & interactive products”.