Paola Antonelli: Design and the elastic mind

翻译人员: Manlai YOU 校对人员: Chun-wen Chen

I dabble in design. I'm a curator of architecture and design;

我涉及设计；我是建筑与设计的策展人。

I happen to be at the Museum of Modern Art.

我在现代艺术博物馆工作，

But what we're going to talk about today

但重要的是 － 今天我们要谈的

is really design. Really good designers are like sponges:

是真正的设计。真正好的设计师就像海棉。

they really are curious

他们充满好奇心

and absorb every kind of information that comes their way,

吸收各种他们遇到的信息，

and transform it so that it can be used by people like us.

将它转换后让我们使用。

And so that gives me an opportunity,

因此，那给我机会，

because every design show that I curate

因为每个我策划的设计展

kind of looks at a different world. And it's great,

都像看到不同的世界。那很棒，

because it seems like every time I change jobs.

就像我每次都换了工作。

And what I'm going to do today is I'm going to give you a preview

今天我要给你们预览

of the next exhibition that I'm working on, which is called

我正在筹备的下个展览，叫做：

"Design and the Elastic Mind."

「设计与弹性思维」。

The world that I decided to focus on this particular time

这次我要聚焦的世界

is the world of science and the world of technology.

是科学世界及技术世界。

Technology always comes into play when design is involved,

当涉及设计时，技术总是有关，

but science does a little less.

而科学则稍少一些。

But designers are great at taking big revolutions that happen

但设计师总能善用伟大的变革，

and transforming them so that we can use them.

转换后让我们使用。

And this is what this exhibition looks at.

这就是这项展览所追求的。

If you think about your life today,

想想你今天的生活，

you go every day through many different scales,

每天走过许多不同的尺度，

many different changes of rhythm and pace.

许多不同韵律及步调的改变。

You work over different time zones, you talk to very different people,

在不同时区工作，与差异很大的人交谈，

you multitask. We all know it, and we do it kind of automatically.

多任务处理。我们都知道它，而且能自动处理。

Some of the minds in this audience are super elastic,

你们的思维有的是超级弹性

others are a little slower,

有的则反应慢一点，

others have a few stretch marks, but nonetheless

其他人的则有点拉痕，但无论如何

this is a quite exceptional audience from that viewpoint.

以此观点，你们是极独特的群众。

Other people are not as elastic.

其他人则不那么有弹性。

I can't get my father in Italy to work on the Internet.

我无法让在意大利的老爸上网。

He doesn't want to put high-speed Internet at home.

他不想在家中装高速网络。

And that's because there's some little bit of fear,

那是因为有一点害怕，

little bit of resistance or just clogged mechanisms.

有一点抗拒或阻碍的情形。

So designers work on this particular malaise that we have,

因此，设计师为我们特有的不适应、

these kinds of discomforts that we have,

我们的不自在而去设计，

and try to make life easier for us.

试着让我们生活得较容易。

Elasticity of mind is something that we really need, you know,

思维的弹性是我们真正需要的，

we really need, we really cherish and we really work on.

我们真的需要，真的珍惜，并认真追求。

And this exhibition is about the work of designers

这个展览是关于设计师的作品

that help us be more elastic,

它让我们更有弹性，

and also of designers that really work on this elasticity

和追求弹性机会的设计师们。

as an opportunity. And one last thing is that

还有最后一点...

it's not only designers, but it's also scientists.

不只是设计师，也有科学家。

And before I launch into the display of some of the slides

在开始播放幻灯片、

and into the preview, I would like to point out

开始预览之前，我要指出

this beautiful detail about scientists and design.

科学家和设计的美丽细节。

You can say that the relationship between science and design

你可以说，科学和设计的关系

goes back centuries. You can of course talk about

已有好几世纪。你当然也可以谈

Leonardo da Vinci and many other Renaissance men and women --

李奥那多‧达芬奇，许多其他文艺复兴时期的男女，

and there's a gigantic history behind it.

背后有个巨大的历史。

But according to a really great science historian you might know,

但依据一位伟大科学史学者的说法，

Peter Galison -- he teaches at Harvard --

彼得‧卡里森 － 他在哈佛大学教书 －

what nanotechnology in particular and quantum physics

特别是纳米科技和量子物理学

have brought to designers is this renewed interest,

带给设计师的是一股新的兴趣，

this real passion for design.

对设计的真正热情。

So basically, the idea of being able to build things bottom up,

因此基本上，由下而上建造物品的想法，

atom by atom, has made them all into tinkerers.

用原子一个个建，使他们成为修补匠。

And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers,

突然间科学家们都在找设计师，

just like designers are seeking scientists.

就如设计师们在找科学家一样。

It's a brand-new love affair that we're trying to cultivate

这是一个新的爱情故事，我们试图由现代艺术博物馆

at MOMA. Together with Adam Bly, who is the founder of Seed magazine --

和亚当‧柏莱合作，他创办了 Seed 杂志 －

that's now a multimedia company, you might know it --

现在是个多媒体公司，也许你知道它 －

we founded about a year ago a monthly salon

约一年前，我们创立让科学家和设计师

for designers and scientists, and it's quite beautiful.

每月一次的沙龙，极为美妙。

And Keith has come, and also Jonathan has come and many others.

济慈来了，约納坦 也来了，还有许多其他人。

And it was great, because at the beginning was this apology fest --

结果很棒，因为一开始是道歉连连，

you know, scientists would tell designers,

科学家告诉设计师：

you know, I don't know what style is, I'm not really elegant.

我不知道何谓风格，我真的不够优雅。

And designers would like, oh, I don't know how to do an equation,

而设计师则说：我不会做数学式子，

I don't understand what you're saying. And then all of a sudden

我不懂你说的。而突然间

they really started talking each others' language,

他们真的开始说起彼此的语言，

and now we're already at the point that they collaborate.

而现在我们已到了彼此合作的地步。

Paul Steinhardt, a physicist from New York,

你知道保罗‧史坦哈特，来自纽约的物理学者，

and Aranda/Lasch, architects, collaborated in an installation

和 Aranda/Lasch 建筑师合作在伦敦的

in London at the Serpentine.

蛇本坦做装置设计。

And it's really interesting to see how this happens.

看着它的进展真是有趣。

The exhibition will talk about the work

这个展览将要谈

of both designers and scientists,

设计师与科学家的作品，

and show how they're presenting the possibilities of the future to us.

展示他们如何为我们展现未来。

I'm showing to you

现在我正要为你展示

different sections of the show right now,

这个展览的不同部分，

just to give you a taste of it.

让你先睹为快，

Nanophysics and nanotechnology, for instance,

例如，纳米物理学与纳米科技，

have really opened the designer's mind.

已真正开启了设计师的思维

In this case I'm showing more the designers' work,

这个例子我将展示较多设计师的作品，

because they're the ones that have really been stimulated.

因为真正受到刺激的就是他们。

A lot of the objects in the show are concepts,

展览中的许多物品只是概念，

not objects that exist already. But what you're looking at here

不是已经存在的物品。但你看到的

is the work of some scientists from UCLA.

是洛杉矶加州大学科学家的作品。

This kind of alphabet soup is a new way to mark proteins --

这种字母汤是标示蛋白质的新方法，

not only by color but literally by alphabet letters.

不但用颜色，也用字母。

So they construct it, and they can construct all kinds of forms

他们制作它，可用纳米尺度

at the nanoscale. This is the work of design students

做成各种形态。而这个作品来自伦敦的

from the Royal College of Arts in London

皇家艺术学院的设计系学生和

that have been working together with their tutor, Tony Dunne,

指导老师东尼‧杜恩，

and with a bunch of scientists around Great Britain

以及一些英国科学家做的 －

on the possibilities of nanotechnology for design in the future.

探讨纳米科技用在未来设计的可能性。

New sensing elements on the body --

身体的新感应单元。

you can grow hairs on your nails,

让指甲长毛，

and therefore grab some of the particles from another person.

因此可以抓取他人身上的分子。

They seem very, very obsessed

他们似乎执意要找出

with finding out more about the ideal mate.

更多关于理想伴侣的事。

So they're working on enhancing everything: touch, smell --

因此他们强化每件事 － 触觉、嗅觉，

everything they can, in order to find the perfect mate.

任何能做的事，以找到完美的伴侣。

Very interesting. This is a typeface designer

很有趣。而这是一位字体设计师

from Israel who has designed -- he calls them "typosperma."

来自以色列，他设计了 － 所谓的｢精虫体｣

He's thinking -- of course it's all a concept --

他想 － 当然只是个概念 －

of injecting typefaces into spermatozoa,

把字体注入精虫、注入精子 －

I don't know how to say it in English -- spermatazoi --

英文该怎么念 － spermatazoi，

in order to make them become -- to almost have a song

使它们变成 － 几乎每次射精都会

or a whole poem written with every ejaculation. (Laughter)

唱一首歌或吟一首诗。(笑声)

I tell you, designers are quite fantastic, you know.

我认为，设计师真是神奇，

So, tissue design.

接着，肌肉组织设计。

In this case too, you have a mixture of scientists and designers.

这例子也是科学家和设计师的结合。

This here is part of the same lab at the Royal College of Arts.

这也是出自皇家艺术学院的同一个实验室。

The RCA is really quite an amazing school from that viewpoint.

就这方面，皇家艺术学院真是个奇妙的学校。

One of the assignments for a year was to work with in-vitro meat.

有一年的作业是用培养皿种肉。

You know that already you can grow meat in vitro.

你知道，已经可以用培养皿种肉。

In Australia they did it -- this research company, called SymbioticA.

澳洲有人种它 － 一家研究公司叫做 SymbioticA，

But the problem is that it's a really ugly patty.

但问题是种出来的很难看。

And so, the assignment to the students was,

因此，给学生的作业是：

how should the steak of tomorrow be?

未来的牛排该长得怎样？

When you don't have to kill cows and it can have any shape,

如果你不必杀牛，则它可以是任何形状，

what should it be like?

它该长得怎样？

So this particular student, James King,

这名学生叫詹姆斯‧金恩

went around the beautiful English countryside,

到漂亮的英国乡下四处去，

picked the best, best cow that he could see,

挑了他看到的最美、最美的牛，

and then put her in the MRI machine.

然后将它放在磁共振成像机上。

Then, he took the scans of the best organs and made the meat --

取最佳部位的扫描影像用来做肉。

of course, this is done with a Japanese resins food maker,

当然，这是由日本树脂食品模型师做的，

but you know, in the future it could be made better --

而未来可以做得更好。

which reproduces the best MRI scan of the best cow he could find.

而那再现了他能找到的最美的牛的最佳磁共振影像。

Instead, this element here is much more banal.

而这个单元则较为俗气一点。

Something that you know can be done already

你已经知道可以做到的

is to grow bone tissue, so that you can make a wedding ring

是增长骨头组织来做一枚婚戒

out of the bone tissue of your loved one -- literally.

来自你心爱的人的骨头组织。

So, this is indeed made of human bone tissue.

这是真人骨组织做成的。

This is SymbioticA, and they've been working --

这家 SymbioticA 公司，他们正在做，

they were the first ones to do this in-vitro meat --

他们是第一家做培养皿肉。

and now they've also done an in-vitro coat, a leather coat.

现在他们也做培养皿外套，一种皮外套，

It's miniscule, but it's a real coat. It's shaped like one.

是袖珍型的，却是真的外套。形状也像。

So, we'll be able to really not have any excuse

因此，我们将没有任何借口

to be wearing everything leather in the future.

在未来还穿真皮的。

One of the most important topics of the show -- you know,

这展览的一个最重要主题就是

as anything in our life today,

就如我们今日的生活一般，

we can look at it from many, many different viewpoints,

我们可以有许多不同观点看它，

and at different levels.

不同的层次看它。

One of the most interesting and most important concepts

其中一个最有趣最重要的概念

is the idea of scale. We change scale very often:

就是尺度的观念。我们很常改变尺度，

we change resolution of screens, and

我们改变显示器的分辨率，但我们不 －

we're not really fazed by it, we do it very comfortably.

并不以为意，我们习以为常。

So you go, even in the exhibition,

因此，甚至在展览里，

from the idea of nanotechnology and the nanoscale

从纳米科技及纳米尺度的概念

to the manipulation of really great amounts of data --

到处理极大量的数据；

the mapping and tagging of the universe and of the world.

去映射及标示宇宙及世界。

In this particular case a section will be devoted

这个特例中，将有一个部分是

to information design.

信息设计。

You see here the work of Ben Fry. This is "Human vs. Chimps" --

这里可看到本‧富莱的作品。这是人类对猩猩。

the few chromosomes that distinguish us from chimps.

少数几个染色体区分我们和猩猩。

It was a beautiful visualization that he did for Seed magazine.

这是他为 Seed 杂志做的漂亮视觉图。

And here's the whole code of Pac-Man, visualized

这是可视化的吃豆人游戏全套程序代码

with all the go-to, go-back-to,

包含所有的 go-to、go-back-to，

also made into a beautiful choreography.

都变成漂亮的舞谱。

And then also graphs by scientists,

也有科学家的图：

this beautiful diagraph of protein homology.

这张漂亮的蛋白质同源分度图。

Scientists are starting to also consider aesthetics.

科学家已注意到美学。

We were discussing with Keith Shrubb* this morning

我们今天早上和济慈‧施乐伯讨论

the fact that many scientists

事实上许多科学家

tend not to use anything beautiful in their presentations,

在发表时倾向不用漂亮的东西，

otherwise they're afraid of being considered dumb blondes.

怕被认为虚有漂亮的外表。

So they pick the worst background

因此挑选最糟糕的背景

from any kind of PowerPoint presentation, the worst typeface.

去做各种幻灯片发表，最差的字体。

It's only recently that this kind of marriage

直到最近设计师和科学家

between design and science is producing some of the first "pretty" --

的结合，才产生了第一次的－

if we can say so -- scientific presentations.

我们所谓的 － 「漂亮的」科学发表。

Another aspect of contemporary design

当代设计的另一面向

that I think is mind-opening, promising

我认为让人心智大开、充满期许、

and will really be the future of design,

也会成为未来的设计，

is the idea of collective design.

就是集体设计的概念。

You know, the whole XO laptop, from One Laptop per Child,

你知道，整个 XO 手提电脑，即：学童都有计算机，

is based on the idea of collaboration and mash and networking.

就是基于合作、结合、及网络的概念。

So, the more the merrier.

因此，越多越愉快。

The more computers, the stronger the signal,

计算机越多，信号越强，

and children work on the interface so that it's all based

儿童们使用接口，全部基于

on doing things together, tasks together.

一起做事，分工做事。

So the idea of collective design

因此，合作设计的概念

is something that will become even bigger in the future,

是未来会更盛行的事，

and this is chosen as an example.

这也被选为一个例子。

Related to the idea of collective design and to the new balance

关于合作设计的概念和

between the individual and the collectiveness, collectivity

个人与集体活动之间的新平衡

is the idea of existence maximum.

就是｢存在最大化｣的概念。

That's a term that I coined a few years ago

这个词是几年前由我创用的

while I was thinking of how pressed we are together,

那时我想我们都挤在一起，

and at the same time how these small objects,

而同时那些小小的物品，

like the Walkman first and then the iPod,

如随身听和 iPod，却又能

create bubbles of space around us that enable us

为我们创造了空间范围，让我们

to have a metaphysical space

拥有无形的空间，

that is much bigger than our physical space.

那比我们物理空间大很多。

You can be in the subway and you can be completely isolated

你可以在地鉄却完全孤立

and have your own room in your iPod.

独享你自己的 iPod 空间。

And this is the work of several designers

这是几个设计师的作品

that really enhance the idea of solitude and expansion

以各种技法，它真正强化了

by means of various techniques.

孤独及扩张的概念。

This is a spa telephone. The idea is that it's become so difficult

这是个水疗电话。概念是现在很难

to have a private conversation anywhere

随处有私人谈话了 －

that you go to the spa, you have a massage, you have a facial,

你去水疗、去按摩、去做脸、

maybe a rub, and then you have this beautiful pool

去推拿，水池多么漂亮，

with this perfect temperature, and you can have

温度恰到好处，让你

this isolation tank phone conversation

在这个｢孤立泡｣中讲电话

with whomever you've been wanting to talk with for a long time.

和任何你想好好长谈的人聊聊。

And same thing here, Social Tele-presence.

而这是相同的事：社会远距在场。

It's actually already used by the military a little bit,

军中已多少用到它，

but it's the idea of being able to be somewhere else

但它的想法是让你的感官

with your senses while you're removed from it physically.

在身体不在场时能感觉得到。

And this is called Blind Date. It's a [unclear],

这叫做盲目约会。

so if you're too shy to be really at the date,

如果你太害羞不敢去约会，

you can stay at a distance with your flowers

你就带着花离远一点

and somebody else reenacts the date for you.

别人会替你扮演约会。

Rapid manufacturing is another big area

快速制造是另一个重要领域

in which technology and design are, I think,

让技术与设计，我认为...

bound to change the world. You've heard about it before many times.

一起来改变世界。以前你听过很多次了

Rapid manufacturing is a computer file

快速制造是用计算机档案

sent directly from the computer to the manufacturing machine.

直接由计算机送到制造设备上。

It used to be called rapid prototyping, rapid modeling.

它曾叫做快速原型、快速模型法。

It started out in the '80s, but at the beginning

它开始于 '80 年代，开始时

it was machines carving out of a foam block

是用机器雕刻泡棉块

a model that was very, very fragile,

这种模型很脆弱，

and could not have any real use.

很难有实际用途。

Slowly but surely, the materials became better -- better resins.

渐渐地，材料变好了 － 用较好的树脂。

Techniques became better -- not only carving

技巧也变好了 － 不只是雕刻

but also stereolithography and laser -- solidifying all kinds of resins,

也用立体印制及激光，固化各种树脂，

whether in powder or in liquid form. And the vats became bigger,

不论是粉末或液状。而桶子也变大了，

to the point that now we can have actual chairs

直到现在我们能有实际的椅子

made by rapid manufacturing.

由快速制造做成。

It takes seven days today to manufacture a chair,

如今做一张椅子要七天，

but you know what? One day it will take seven hours.

但你知道吗？有一天将只需七小时。

And then the dream is that you'll be able to, from home,

梦想将是：你将能在家里

customize your chair. You know, companies and designers

订制你的椅子。公司和设计师

will be designing the matrix or the margins

将设计本体或周边

that respect both solidity and brand, and design identity.

并兼顾坚实性、及品牌和设计识别。

And then you can send it to the Kinko's store at the corner

然后你将送它到街角的 Kinko 商店

and go get your chair. Now, the implications of this are enormous,

去拿取你的椅子。这个意涵很大，

not only regarding the participation of the final buyer

不只关于最终购买者的参与

in the design process, but also no tracking,

设计过程，也不必追踪、

no warehousing, no wasted materials.

不必仓储、不浪费材料。

Also, I can imagine many design manufacturers

因此，我能想象许多设计制造公司

will have to retool their own business plans

将要重新改造它的商业计划。

and maybe invest in this Kinko's store. But it really is a big change.

并投资到 Kinko 商店。那真是一个大变化。

And here I'm showing a picture that was in Wired Magazine --

接着我秀一张 WIRED 杂志的照片，

you know, the Artifacts of the Future section that I love so much --

这是我很喜欢的｢未来用品｣部分，

that shows you can have your desktop 3D printer

看到你可以有自己的桌上型立体印制机

and print your own basketball.

印制自己的篮球。

But here instead are examples, you can already 3D-print textiles,

这里只是举例，已经有真的立体印纺机，

which is very interesting.

那是很有趣的。

This is just a really nice touch -- it's called slow prototyping.

这是一个很细腻的东西 － 叫做慢速原型法。

It's a designer that put 10,000 bees at work and they built this vase.

有个设计师放一万只蜜蜂做了这个蜂巢花瓶。

They had a particular shape that they had to stay in.

它们依预给的形状建巢。

Mapping and tagging.

映射与标示。

As the capacity of computers becomes really, really big,

计算机的能力越来越大，真的很大，

and the capacity of our mind not that much bigger,

而我们的心智能力并没变大，

we find that we need to tag as much as we can what we do

我们发现我们必须标示做过的事

in order to then retrace our path.

以便能跟踪走过的路。

Also, we do it in order to share with other people.

再一次，这种经验的共享

Again, this communal sense of experience

再一次，这种经验的共享

that seems to be so important today.

今日看来极为重要。

So, various ways to map and tag

因此，各种映射与标示方法

are also the work of many designers nowadays.

也是当今许多设计师的工作。

Also, the senses -- designers and scientists all work on trying to expand

感觉。设计师与科学家都试图扩大

our senses capabilities so that we can achieve more.

我们的感觉能力以求达成更多。

And also animal senses in a way.

某方面则是动物的感觉。

This particular object that many people love so much

这项特别的物品许多人都很喜欢

is actually based on kind of a scientific experiment --

实际上是基于一种科学实验 －

the fact that bees have a very strong olfactory sense,

事实上蜂有很强的嗅觉，

and so -- much like dogs that can smell certain kinds of skin cancer --

因此 － 就像狗可以嗅出某种皮肤癌 －

bees can be trained by Pavlovian reflex

蜂也能训练以巴甫洛夫反射

to detect one type of cancer, and also pregnancy.

来侦测一种癌症，以及验孕。

And so this student at the RCA

同样这个皇家艺术学院学生

designed this beautiful blown-glass object

设计了这个漂亮的吹玻璃

where the bees move from one chamber to the other

让蜂由一个隔间飞到另一隔间

if they detect that particular smell

一旦它们侦测到特殊的气味

that signifies, in this case, pregnancy.

那意味着，本例是验孕。

Another shape is made for cancer.

另一种形状则可以验癌。

Design for Debate is a very interesting new endeavor

｢设计为辩论｣是很有趣的新尝试

that designers have really shaped for themselves.

是设计师为自己而创设的

Some designers don't design objects, products,

有些设计师并不设计物品、产品，

things that we're going to actually use,

不做供实用的东西，

but rather, they design scenarios that are object-based.

而是设计基于物品的剧情。

They're still very useful.

剧情也很有用的。

They help companies and other designers think better about the future.

可以帮助公司或其他设计师更好地思考未来。

And usually they are accompanied by videos.

通常它们伴随影片来呈现。

This is quite beautiful. It's Dunne and Raby, "All the Robots."

这个很美。是杜恩与拉比的｢所有机器人｣。

Those are a series of robots that are meant to be taken care of.

那些是一系列要人照顾的机器人。

We always think that robots will take care of us,

我们都认为机器人将会照顾我们，

and instead they designed these robots that are very, very needy.

反之，他们设计了这些很黏人的机器人。

You need to take one in your arms and look at it in the eyes

有一个你要抱在手臂，亲眼看着它

for about five minutes before it does something.

要约五分钟它才会做动作。

Another one gets really, really nervous if you get in to the room,

另一个在你进入房间时会非常、非常紧张，

and starts shaking, so you have to calm it down.

开始发抖，因此你要安抚它。

So it's really a way to make us think more

这样让我们进一步去想

about what robots mean to us.

机器人对我们的意义。

Noam Toran and "Accessories for Lonely Men":

诺安‧拓南的｢寂人配件｣

the idea is that when you lose your loved one

概念是当你失去心爱的人

or you go through a bad breakup,

或经历痛苦的分手，

what you miss the most are those annoying things

你最怀念的是那些琐事

that you used to hate when you were with the other person.

你和那人一起时的那些讨厌的事。

So he designed all these series of accessories.

因此他设计了这系列的附件。

This one is something that takes away the sheets from you at night.

像这个夜里会把你的被单抽走。

Then there's another one that breathes on your neck.

而这个的呼吸会吹在你的脖子上。

There's another one that throws plates and breaks them.

还有另一个会丢盘子、甩破它。

So it's just this idea of what we really miss in life.

整个想法就是生活中我们怀念的事。

Elio Caccavale: he took the idea

另外，爱利奧‧喀卡瓦尔，他采用这想法

of those dolls that explain leukemia.

用玩偶解释白血病。

He's working on dolls that explain xenotransplantation,

他正在做一个解释异体移植的玩偶，

and also the spider gene into the goat, from a few years ago.

及将蜘蛛基因置入山羊，几年前的。

He's working for the exhibition on a whole series of dolls

他为这个展览做一整系列的玩偶

that explain to children where babies come from today.

为儿童解释今天婴儿是怎么来的。

Because it's not anymore Mom, Dad, the flowers and the bees,

因为已不是妈、爸，花和蜂

and then there's the baby. No, it can be two moms, three dads,

然后婴儿就来了。不，可以是两个妈，三个爸，

in-vitro -- there's the whole idea

在培养皿里 － 就是这个概念

of how babies can be made today that has changed.

今天婴儿是如何产生的，已经改变了。

So it's a series of dolls that he's working on right now.

因此，这是他正在做的一系列玩偶。

One of the most beautiful things

一件最美的事

is that designers really work on life,

设计师并不真的制作生命，

even though they take technology into account.

即使他们采用了科技。

And many designers have been working recently

最近许多设计师在做的

on the idea of death and mourning,

是死亡及哀悼的想法，

and what we can do about it today with new technologies.

运用新科技我们能为它做什么。

Or how we should behave about it with new technologies.

或者，以新科技我们会有什么做法。

These three objects over there are hard drives

那三件物品上都有硬盘

with a Bluetooth connection. But they're in reality

有蓝芽连结。但它们事实上

very, very beautiful sculpted artifacts

是非常、非常漂亮的雕塑品

that contain the whole desktop and computer memory

包含了某个过世者的

of somebody who passed away.

整个桌面及计算机记忆。

So instead of having only the pictures,

因此，不是只有一些照片，

you will be able to put this object next to the computer

你将能把物品摆在计算机旁

and all of a sudden have, you know,

因而突然间，你知道的，

Gertrude's whole life and all of her files

葛尔楚的一生和她的所有档案

and her address book come alive.

及她的连络簿都活了过来。

And this is even better. This is Auger-Loizeau, "AfterLife."

这个更好。它是奧格‧雷宙的｢来世｣。

It's the idea that some people don't believe in an afterlife.

主要构想是有些人不信有来世。

So to give them something tangible that shows that

因此提供他们一些有形事物，

there is something after death, they take the gastric juices

显示死后的事，他们取用死者的胃液

of people who passed away and concentrate them,

把它浓缩后，

and put them into a battery that can actually be used

放在电池里而真的能

to power flashlights. They also go -- you know, sex toys, whatever.

点亮手电筒。也可以用在 － 例如，情趣玩具、等等。

It's quite amazing how these things can make you smile,

令人惊讶的，这些事都令人会心一笑，

can make you laugh, can make you cry sometimes.

甚至大笑，有时让人哭。

But I'm hoping that this particular exhibition

但我希望这个特别的展览

will be able to trace a new portrait of where design is going --

可以描绘出设计将走的新图像，

which is always, hopefully, a portrait a few years in advance

这个图像总是，但愿是，早几年

of where the world is going.

说出世界要往哪里去。

Thank you very much.

谢谢大家。