Handmade
A kit that lets you archive your hand microbiome for food fermentation process in the future.
Category: Speculative design Made In: 2019
Collaborated with Chenshan Gao & Winnie Yoe
Role:
Concept R&D, design, fabrication
Tools: Arduino, Laser Cutter, Illustrator
Exhibition: Bio-Design Challenge 2019 - NYU Representative Team
Project site
Handmade is an archival system created to explore the socio-cultural implications of hand microbiome, and to design an interaction to make our implicit relationship with microbiome visible.
It is a system that can help you collect hand microbiome for making fermented food. The system is presented in the form of a physical and instructional kit. We hope to break away from the pathological perspective of hand microbiome, and reevaluate our close relationship with microbiome. Through this project, we hope to encourage a multi-species model in viewing our relationship with our environment.
