Nelly Ben Hayoun has been invited to join forces in a road trip from Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, through the Ukraine and the oil fields of Azerbaijan to the rocket launch pad of Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrone. A Project initiated by Liam…

A Iceland-based brief written for Platform 10 at the Royal College of Art , Design Products Ma. While experiencing the extreme Icelandic landscape with its geological properties and its subpolar oceanic, Bureau Odyssey reassesses the notion of risk and tourism in…

Steam Cells is a banquet for wonders. It investigates near realities and hyper fantasies and it explores the implications of current and emerging technologies through the presentation of fictional but eatable scenarios, parallel worlds, extrapolated tangents, cautionary tales and design fictions. Inspired…

Yves-Marie Pinel teacher in design and communication at the Parisian school Estienne and the group Glitch Fiction with Nelly Ben Hayoun, David Benqué and Nicolas Myers (Studio Myers) organised a one week workshop. Ma Design students  had to work on…

A workshop by Nelly Ben Hayoun With the participation of Dr. Francis Rocard, Cnes Paris and Foley Artist Sue Harding Supervising sound engineer : Pierre Le Cardinal Pictures by Vinciane Vergueten The Spectacle On The Moon A workshop developed as…

Covered with 12,000 photomultiplier tubes the Super Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan is the ultimate meeting of science and craft. A photomultiplier tube is an extremely sensitive converter of light to electricity (the opposite of a light bulb). In this…

Excerpt from brief: In William Burroughs’ text The Invisible Generation he describes hidden operators, agents of change and design that sit behind the scenes formulating and curating new events, experiences and interactions. Acting as the “Invisible Generation”, you are tasked…

This workshop was developed for Madlab during the Manchester Science Festival, for Super Collider in London, Ma Design Students at Kingston University and Foodmarketo in London. In collaboration with Dr.Carina Fearnley, volcanologist. It explored how to develop thrill through Home…

A workshop developed  for Split Interactions, University of Split, Croatia, March 2011 See videos and more pictures online here Kingston University Ma (Design Products, Design space, Fashion design, Health and Well-Being, Design for Teaching and Learning), Kingston Ensa Nancy, Dnsep,…

A workshop developed for the Science Gallery with the artist Aideen Barry The children of your children of your children… might have to deal with very different daily domestic issue. Indeed they might be living on the Moon or Mars…

A workshop developed for  Ba Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology and Ma Design Products, Ma Fashion and Ma Design for learning and teaching in Kingston University. Brief Cockroaches are believed to be among the hardiest insects on the…