Parsons School
of Design
Projects | 2018
Bactoyou
Yuxin Cheng, Arian Ghousi, Ignacio Garnham, Juliette van Haren
bactoyou™ is a microbial time machine that empowers you to collect, sequence, explore, and bac-up your previous microbial states; By creating a historical database of your microbiome over time, we allow users to “jump back in time” and reconstitute their present gut microbiome based on specific previous states.
bactoyou™ offers a solution to microbiome changes or depletion as a result of antibiotic treatments, chemotherapy, long term travel and many other threats and events. By using bactoyou™, users will become more aware of their microbiome by collecting samples in an easy and user-friendly way, breaking the paradigms of traditional fecal sampling methods and bridging users with science through an engaging platform.
Beyond 100%
Tung Lin, Jae kyong Cheong, Siho Chang
Beyond 100% imagines a microchip that can genetically modify a human’s capacity to acquire, manage, and share nutrition. The chip endows the user with the ability to receive nutrition from new food sources.
INstructors
Jane Pirone
Jane Pirone is an Associate Professor of Communication Design at Parsons, The New School for Design, where she served as Director of the Communication Design program until Summer 2011. Jane is a founding member of the Datamyne Project (myne.newschool.edu), and the urbanBIKE initiative. In addition, she is the founder/creative director of Not For Tourists and the award winning design firm, Happy Mazza Media, which specialized in information and interactive design for clients such as Nickelodeon, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, IBM, and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Jane received a BFA from the University of Michigan, and an MS in Telecommunications and Information Management from Polytechnic University.
Jenifer Wightman
Trained as a Toxicologist, Jenifer Wightman is a research scientist specializing in greenhouse gas inventories and life cycle analysis of agriculture, forestry, waste, and bioenergy systems at Cornell University, funded by DoE, USDA, NYS DA&M, and NYSERDA. Her art practice began in 2002 and employs scientific tropes to incite curiosity of biological phenomena and inform an ecological rationality. Her art has been commissioned by NYC parks, featured at the Lincoln Center, BAM, and Imagine Science Festival, and is held in collections such as the Morgan Library, Library of Congress, Gutenberg Museum, Bodmer Museum, and the Danish Royal Library.