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Song Of The Machine Song of the Machine is a short film and installation originally produced for HUMAN+, Science Gallery Dublin’s flagship exhibition of 2011.
manufacturing businesses around 3D printing, whilst young students now have access to online registries which allow them to manipulate DNA and effectively start editing living organisms (the field of synthetic biology). Linked to these trends of technological empowerment, we’re also witnessing the rise of what a ‘new normal’, or something the futurist Ziauddin Sardar has referred to as our ‘postnormal times’ namely, a period ‘characterized by uncertainty, rapid change, realignment of power, upheaval, and chaotic behavior’. Within this context, the challenge for the future generation of designers will be to imagine and create new kinds of design practices – practices where the designer is not necessarily a star or a hero creating iconic products, but someone who is involved with collaborators and the wider community to design new kinds of models of living for the 21st century; a designer who is in effect helping widen perspectives. www.poolmagazine.in 15