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Thomas Thwaites (designer)

Thwaites in 2011 at Poptech in Maine Toaster and casing from "The Toaster Project", on display in the V&A in September 2022 [ 1 ] Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and write...

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Thwaites in 2011 at Poptech in Maine
Toaster and casing from "The Toaster Project", on display in the V&A in September 2022[1]

Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer. He describes himself as "a designer (of a more speculative sort), interested in technology, science, futures research & etc."[2]

Biography

Thwaites studied economics and biology at University College London, followed by a master's degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art i n 2009.[3]:192

In a nine-month project as part of his MA course, Thwaites attempted to build a toaster from scratch. The project was inspired by a quote from Douglas Adams' 1992 novel Mostly Harmless: "Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich, and that was it."[3]:35 A toaster has about 400 components: he simplified the materials list to copper, steel, plastic, mica and nickel and attempted to mine, refine, and otherwise process all the raw materials needed.[4] He published The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch, and gave a TED talk "How I Built a Toaster - From Scratch".[5] The tools and artefacts from the project are on display as an installation in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in room 76 "Design 1900 to Now".[1]

The Toaster Project installation at V&A August 2017[1]

He later spent several days living among goats in the Alps, using prosthetic goat-like legs and eating grass using an artificial rumen, to explore the life of goats.[6][7] This resulted in GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human and an Ig Nobel Prize.[8]

In January 2017 he appeared on BBC Radio 4's Museum of Curiosity. His hypothetical donation to the imaginary museum was a history book written in 2222AD, covering the present time.[9]

En 2017–2018 fue profesor visitante en el departamento de Diseño Industrial de la Escuela de Diseño de Rhode Island . [ 2 ] [ 10 ]

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Referencias

  1. 1 2 3 "El proyecto de la tostadora" . Colecciones . Museo Victoria y Alberto . Consultado el 27 de agosto de 2017 .
  2. 1 2 "Hola" . Thomas Thwaites . Consultado el 15 de enero de 2017 .
  3. 1 2 Thwaites, Thomas (2011). El proyecto de la tostadora . Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-997-6.
  4. ↑ Cangeloso, Sal. «Un proyecto de nueve meses para construir una tostadora desde cero da como resultado un libro, "Monstruosidades con forma de tostadora"» . Geek. Archivado del original el 24 de septiembre de 2015. Recuperado el 15 de enero de 2017 .
  5. ↑ "Cómo construí una tostadora desde cero" . TED. 12 de enero de 2011. Consultado el 15 de enero de 2017 .Incluye enlace al vídeo de la charla completa.
  6. ↑ Barkham, Patrick (15 de mayo de 2016). "No es broma: lo que aprendí al convertirme en GoatMan" . The Guardian . Consultado el 15 de enero de 2017 .
  7. ↑ Graham, Chris (28 de mayo de 2016). "No es broma: por qué Thomas Thwaites vivió como una cabra en Suiza" . The Telegraph . Consultado el 15 de enero de 2017 .
  8. ↑ "Premio Ig Nobel para el 'hombre cabra' alpino"BBC News. 23 de septiembre de 2016. Consultado el 15 de enero de 2017 .
  9. ↑ "El Museo de la Curiosidad: Serie 10, Episodio 1" . BBC Radio 4. Consultado el 15 de enero de 2017 .
  10. ↑ "Thomas Thwaites" . Diseño industrial: Profesorado . Escuela de Diseño de Rhode Island . Consultado el 14 de marzo de 2018 .
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