INDEX: design to improve life

Currently exhibited in Copenhagen, the INDEX: design to improve life 2007, a “Copenhagen based worldwide non-profit organization that focuses on design to improve life.” Biannually in Copenhagen.

All of it caught my attention… but particularly, “Sharer,” a service that enables neighborhoods to conveniently and securely share their household products that are seldom used…” “In today’s economy of excess, storage and recycling are an ever growing problem. Reusing is more energy efficient than recycling, but sharing is a vanishing concept in industrialized nations partly due to declining social interaction at neighborhood levels.” The jacket for the Danish police is a “mobile office” designed by Sidsel Kjøller Damkjær, Johan King & Mads Kjøller Damkjær. The work of FOC, Freedom Of Creation: “virtually stored products are e-mailed for 3D production whenever and wherever needed. Since 1999, FOC has created a global manufacturing infrastructure in contrast to today’s mass production infrastructure. This approach has the potential to revolutionize, transportation, storage, assembly, start-up investments, and_moreover_man’s footprint on the environment.” (Quotes from the exhibition material).