Introduction:

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Different from the general perception of design—to solve the issues in daily living or for the beauty of life—the three design artists Pei-Ying Lin, Kuang-Yi Ku, Paul Gong from the “Ouroboros Organic Organisms of O” in Taiwan, transformed the design object into critical thinking and the catalyst for imagination. They combined their interdisciplinary specialties in the fields of biology, design, and art, thinking about the relationship between people and the living environment, and through speculative design, they seek to envision a possible future with: the relationship between and the possibility in human beings and viruses, people and their armpit hair, and human and dolphin.

 

In order to introduce the most avant-garde design thinking to visitors from all over the world, Play Design Hotel has curated the theme room Future Lab.

 

The Future Lab is also the designers’ living lab—the artists of “Ouroboros Organic Organisms of O” designed navigation equipment, experience package, the scenario questionnaire, and other cultural probes in the room, to help lodgers gradually dig into the concept and context of different experimental projects. At the same time, the lodgers will be expected to produce experimental results through personal participation in the experimental process, as the feedback for the designers.

 

Moreover, shoes and fabric designer Rachel, further to realize the form and structure of the design artists’ research objects into consumption products, such as non-woven toys and pillows. This will link front-end research design exploration and back-end consumption market, to enable more people, through home accessories, to contact with the design products of different thinking approaches. The project also invited Taiwan design brand Donghai Hospital and cutting-edge designers, such as Hsiao-Ching, Cheng, Yao Mengzhu, He Caiying, to demonstrate their own laboratory-style products and the experimental design works, to invest rich diversity in the Future Lab.

 

Future Lab presents the reflection of unknown, the imagination of future, the possibility of the unnoticed. We welcome you to the Future Lab, as both the experimenter and the subject, and to add your perspectives and voices of the unknown, the future, and the unnoticed.

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主題論述：

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不同於一般以解決家居功能或生活美感為出發的設計，來自台灣「㗊機體」的三位設計藝術家 - 林沛瑩、顧廣毅、宮保睿，將設計物件轉化為批判思考、觸發想像的媒介。三個人結合個別在生物、設計、藝術等跨領域背景，思考人與生存環境之間的關係，透過思辨設計(Speculative Design) 的取徑，遙想可能的未來 – 包括：人與病毒、人與自身腋毛，以及人與海豚的未來關係及可能性。

 

為了將這一檔當代最前衛的設計思考引介給來自各國的旅客，玩味旅舍策畫了「未來實驗室」主題房。

 

「未來實驗室」同時也是設計師們的 living lab - 「㗊機體」的設計藝術家們在房間內設計了導覽設備、體驗包及情境問卷等文化探針(cultural probes)，幫助入住旅客逐步深入不同實驗計畫的概念及脈絡。同時，住客藉由親身體驗、參與實驗計畫的過程，也產出實驗成果回饋給設計師。

 

女鞋及織品設計師 Rachel 更進一步將「㗊機體」三位設計藝術家的研究物件，從形式和造型結構上轉化成不織布玩具、抱枕等產品，連結前端的設計探索研究與後端的生活消費市場，讓更多人有機會藉由生活家飾品，接觸不同思考路徑的設計產物。房間同時也邀請台灣設計品牌「東海醫院」及新銳設計師程筱晴、姚孟筑、何采穎等，展出各自的實驗室風格產品及實驗性設計創作，讓整間「未來實驗室」更添豐富多元性。

 

「未來實驗室」呈現的是一種未知的反思、未來的想像、未見的可能性。歡迎來到「未來實驗室」，以實驗者及實驗對象兩種身分，加入你對未知、未來、未見的觀點及論述。