Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
Томас Твейтс: Як я сконструював тостер з нуля
Thomas Thwaites is a designer "of a more speculative sort," he says. Full bio
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Thomas Thwaites - DesignerThomas Thwaites is a designer "of a more speculative sort," he says.
Why you should listen
Thomas Thwaites calls himself "a designer (of a more speculative sort)." His thoughtful projects look deeply at the science behind technology, as in the Toaster Project, which sent spiralling him into the history and techniques of metallurgy and plastics production, and Policing Genes, a thought experiment around amateur genetics. We will not mention Honeytrap, an attempt to explore modern criminality through a bicycle theft gone horribly wrong. He's currently working on a project investigating counterfactual histories in science, supported by the Wellcome Trust.
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