Year: 2020
Client: Tekniska Museet
Focus: Concept Development, Circularity, AI & Generative Design
Hyper Human at Tekniska museet explores humanity’s relationship to technology. What happens when genome editing makes it possible to design our children? Where does the human end and the machine begin, when body parts can be enhanced or replaced? And who is in control when we let artificial intelligence make decisions about crucial life choices? Together with the museum and the designer Monica Förster, we created an exhibition that invites visitors, adults and children alike, to explore these questions for themselves.
We brought AI into the design team. Using generative and parametric design, algorithms processed the form elements into organic, broken architectural shapes, and the results were 3D-printed as furniture, frames, arches, windows and niches. The process became part of the exhibition’s question: what is the role of the human designer when AI takes part in creating the form?
Throughout the exhibition, interactive experiences let visitors try out the subjects for themselves: genetic modification, deep learning, surveillance and the high-tech world of the future.
“What makes Hyper Human really interesting is the existential questions we are faced with.”
Eva Bäckstedt, Svenska Dagbladet, 2020
