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31.01.2018
IKEA hack
IKEA hack
The DESERT LODGE is a prototype for a makeshift
shelter one can use to get from A to B – a synthetic
tumbleweed that drifts in the wind. This lightweight
geometric structure has traversed diverse zones: from
an in-store prototyping demonstration at IKEA to the
High Plains mesas in Arizona; the DESERT LODGE is
in a constant state of motion.
Want to see what kind of experience that creates? Watch the movies:
live hacking
Eric Von Robertson is one of the artists which Platform21 invited to make an IKEA hack. He made a mutifunctional object from IKEA…
event:Amsterdam, Platform21
On Sunday 21 September Eric Von Robertson engaged the public, IKEA hackers and several hundred ...
past project:Amsterdam, Platform21
Who wanted to know what else a LAMPAN could be besides a lamp or how the PRODUKT milk-frother could also be used for other purposes,…
IKEA hack
Kieren Jones used IKEA’s best selling products, the POANG chair and BUMERANG clothes hangers, to create new products such as a…
designer
Copy/paste, delete, zoom, print: these actions are part of using a computer, but we might not be so quick to associate them with the…
concept car
As its name implies, this car by Marijn van der Pol is partly inspired by a soapbox. It is the realisation of a young boy’s…
concept car
Ehsan Moghaddampour designed Bugiman for a future in which driving is totally computer-controlled, leaving drivers merely bored…
IKEA hack
“From an unknown location, I break into IKEA’s computer server. In this nerve centre, the CAD files for every IKEA product…
feature
It seems impossible, but American artist Nina Katchadourian decided to offer the spiders in a Finnish forest some help by mending…
IKEA hack
GYNEA provides a glimpse into the private lives of omnipresent IKEA products. The hyper-impersonal IKEA chair becomes the place…
IKEA hack
IKEA is the perfect family shopping paradise, but as Mark Hoekstra strolled through his hometown IKEA, something bothered him.…