Condom Bowls
- Designer: Anna Fortecka, Julia Keller, Taissia Marchenko, Anastasiya Rybak, Hein Htet Aung, Faisal Nurrachman
- Project advisors: Sara Boś, Arkadiusz Szwed, Jakub Franczuk
- Materials: two condoms, porcelain
Hack the process
Creations of Mechanical Hands
Not much has changed since the mass production of porcelain was invented in the 19th century. Students at the School of Form decided to break this pattern and use KUKA robots to produce porcelain dishes. They wanted the results of their experiments to be a record of their struggle with the material, but also to answer their design questions: If we can do everything with two hands, can we do it with one (robotic) hand? How will porcelain behave when we add breakfast cereal, yeast and vitamin C tablets, or hygroscopic granules? Will the resulting objects be useful, precisely made? It turns out that by interfering with the material and the unusual way of forming, the students achieved amazing results.
Student project
Condom Bowls
WHAT KUKA DOES: using a special magnet grip, it grabs the condom and puts it inside the other condom filled with a certain amount of porcelain. Then, it blows pressurised air inside the external condom.
HOW: The pressure created between the layers of rubber gives shape to the material placed in the internal condom. Once the material is dried and the condoms are removed, the moulds are ready for firing.
Designers
Bowls was created by Anna Fortecka, Julia Keller, Taissia Marchenko, Anastasiya Rybak, Hein Htet Aung, Faisal Nurrachman - students of School of Form SWPS University.
Project was a part of "Hack the Process" exhibition, which was presented for one month at the gallery of the Polish Institute in Vienna as part of the Vienna Design Week (17.9-3.11.2022).