Credits
Production and concept: Carlos Canali and Clara Llamas,
Concept: Michael Sedbon and Carlos Canali
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From June to December 2018, I had been involved in a residency with the Saint Georges University London, on a department doing research on a technic called Plant Molecular Pharming. Their goal is to use plants as bio-reactors buy making uses of localized DNA modifications to make the leaves produce molecules (pharmaceutical, cosmetics etc...)
In the context of this program, I was working with two other Service Design Master students from the London College of Communication: Clara Llamas, and Carlos Canali.
This work, presented at the Everything Happens So much (September 2018), part of the London Design Festival, showcases our research halfway through the Residency.
It is staged in a speculative near-future fiction, where, Brexit agreement had forced the UK government, facing medicine shortages (due to the lack of import capabilities) to open up the pharmaceutical markets to new ways of production.
A fictional company was set to sell the required products and instrument to medicine home production. The HomeGrown Insulin Kit contained the vectors, the genes of interest, as well as the chemicals and seringes needed to perform the manipulation of plants. The BioOven 5000 is a kitchen appliance that can perform genetic manipulation specific tasks Like PCR and Electro Poration or sterilization.
Some Diegetic artifact like an indicative timeline and press articles about the fictional company were displayed in the kitchen.
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