Renewable energy will not solve Bitcoin’s (BTC) sustainability problem according to a blockchainspecialist at Big Four auditing company PwC, Alex de Vries. De Vries presented his argument in a study published in sustainable energy journal Cell on March 14. UNFOLD had sparked an uproar when he was nominated in 2013 for the London Design Museum Prize, and wanted to show copies of works by other candidates. "It's not a statement that the design is dead," says Dries Vorborgen on a visit to Israel
In 2011, Claire Vernier and Driss Verburgen of the Belgian studio UNFOLD presented the "Kiosk" in the Milan Design Week, a project that looked at a future scenario in which three-dimensional printing would be so widespread that street vendors could be found in the corners of the street offering items printed with this technology, On the streets of New York. The idea was that it would be possible to get a custom patch for a broken shoe heel, print illegal versions of designer items (such as imitations of sunglasses and bags offered by street vendors) or buy a birthday gift at the last minute when the shops are already closed.
The project challenged common perceptions of ownership and originality, and examined the role of the designer when the design product is moved from place to place in the form of digital drawings, and is expropriated in ways beyond his control. "We initially scanned existing objects in order to create a digital file that could be printed later, but we quickly realized that it was unnecessary, because everything we wanted to scan could already be found on the Internet," says Warburgen, who visited Israel as a guest of the conference. An activity between the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University, the Jerusalem Science Museum and the Jerusalem Development Authority.
A classic case of win win
What is the role of the designer and how does it change at a time when design and manufacturing are becoming more and more digital? This question is the key to understanding the work of Studio Enfold, which was founded in 2002 by Varnier and Horbrugen after graduating from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Anfold has two meanings: the physical one - to be interpreted, to open up; The second, the metaphoric - to be revealed, to be understood. The two meanings can be found in the studio, which creates projects that explore new ways of creating, producing, financing and distributing in a changing reality.