Abandoned Ideas:

1. Virus tracking

• Tracking of virus outbreaks through time on a world map. (different viruses - different colors) inspiration
• Tracking of fallout dust on a world map after a nuclear war.

2. Dust collection

• Projecting a movie through a plexiglass box that slowly gets filled with dust. (accumulation of dust - reduction of picture quality)
• A device or web application that tells you how much dust is accumulated by you in a room/apartment and when it's time to vacuum.

3. Breaking down of sugarcube

• Video loops displayed in four "boxes" of sugarcubes being broken down by different color liquids (different stages)

Old Object:

(scrapped)

1. Death
2. Hiding
3. Spread
4. Host

All 4 points are continuos, it starts all over again, over and over...

This leads us to Sisyphus.

The object we want to design will need to have the following charecteristics:

• Never ending cycle
• Resets itself after each use
• Designed to be passed down through generations (as soon as the first child id born, he/she will receive the object and will do the same)

What is Sisyphus?

Sisyphus is a greak myth about this man who is condemned to push a big stone up a hill.

As soon as he has reached the top, the stone will fall down and force him to start all over again.

This goes on forever.

The object

We want to create something that can be seen as continious over time. We want people to age with it and

it's design must be timeless.

The solution is a classic toy car. A car that can function just as well as a toy as a timeless design objekt that

looks great on display.

Our car should have the classic beatle shape and be made in a material that atracts grown ups. The function

in it's self will atract the yonger ones (their interest is to play with it).

The car can be seen as a repeating cycle. When a kid plays with it he can drag it backwards and it will then take

of when he releases it. He will grow old and the car is no longer funny to play with but it is beautiful and

will find a place on a shelf and be displayed as a designobject. It will together with it's owner grow old

and when the time is right it will be passed on to next generation. This will be continiously repeated troughout

time. Just like Sysiphos.

Sisyphus 1

To make our car even more atractive and help it and it's owner to create an own story that lives on through

generations, we will make sure that it's made in a limited edition. Each car will have a number and it will be

announced that only 500 is avalible each year.

To push this even further we will create a web site that will fallow the aging ow the car and its owners.

Here you can find the owners of the other cars and learn about their stories. This will be an ageing comunity

of our Sisyphus car.

Random thoughts:

Online community groups

• One person sets it up, tells his/her friends, they do the same etc..
• When topic gets old, the group gets killed, not the friends' accounts.

Immune system for the spread of the internet?

(please add any thoughts)

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