3. Pioneer scientists “must have a vivid intuitive
imagination, for new ideas are not generated by
deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
Max Planck, the father of Quantum Theory
4. “I use Art like a vessel to investigate Science.”
Fabian Oefner
5. For this experiment, Oefner
poured water into a black
reservoir. With the aid of a
syringe, he then added
small drops of oil onto the
water surface.
https://fabianoefner.com/
6. Upon contact with the
water, the oil started to
expand and form into
magnificent structures.
Some of them seem to look
like stars exploding, others
look like a photograph of
the iris.
https://fabianoefner.com/
7. The various colours result
from the reflection and
refraction of light, as it
passes through the oil film
and back into the camera
lens.
8. Depending on how thick the
oil film is, the colours
change from blue, green to
red, until finally they
disappear again.
13. It’s a circular
arrangement of eight
different experiments,
which create drawings
driven by chemical and
physical processes.
14. Electrical current shapes
into fractal patterns,
rusting iron under
magnetic influence
generates delicate
structures and gun
powder burns sound
waves into paper.
15. All experiments are
connected in a way that
one experiment triggers
the next one until the full
circle of works is
completed, creating eight
unique drawings in the
process.
26. Spanish designer Alvaro
Catalan de Ocon has worked
with artisans in Colombia,
Chile, Japan, and Ethiopia to
produce the collaborative
lamps that incorporate
recycled PET bottles.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/fiber-and-pet-plastic-lamps/
27. This work involved
collaboration with eight
Yolngu weavers from Arnhem
Land in Australia’s Northern
Territory.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/fiber-and-pet-plastic-lamps/
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32. Yuko Nishikawa - Beans,
Pinecones, Umbrellas is my
expression of joy through
mobiles whose wonky
colourful dots sway and
giggle as we walk and stir
the air around them.
https://www.yukonishikawa.com/
33. These airy mobiles, in
colours that remind me of
wool yarn samples, are
made with paper pulp clay
which I formulated by
recycling used packages, my
design sketches and old
diaries.
34. These paper cookies are
connected to metal arms
with loops and hooks so that
they can be unassembled
and recycled back into paper
clay again.
35. I mixed paper pulp the same
way I would mix paints. I
blended blue paper pulp and
red paper pulp, and a bit of
yellow paper pulp to make a
muted purple paper clay. I
combined them at their
different blended stages too
to make varying textures and
colour effects.
36. Mushy pulps would make
homogeneous colours, while
crumbly pulps would have a
stippled effect. Finely
blended pulps would become
a smoother surface when
dry, while coarser pulps
would become bumpier like
oatmeal cookies.
37. Before any of these mobiles
were materialised, I made an
acrylic painting on paper to
visualise the colours and the
feeling these mobiles would
project. This image became
a reminder of my initial
abstract idea for the mobiles
while I was building them.
38. Now looking back to this
painting and, especially with
how the texture and the
forms turned out, I’m quite
happy. These mobiles look
like the painting came alive.
46. “When solving a design problem, look to nature
first. There you'll find inspired designs for making
things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered
and more” Janine Benyus
47. “How can architects build a new world of
sustainable beauty? By learning from nature”
Michael Pawlyn
51. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using
Origami as inspiration for a number of unique
spacecraft designs. Besides being
aesthetically beautiful, it addresses a problem
faced by JPL engineers: how do you pack the
greatest amount of spacecraft into the smallest
volume possible? (JPL, 2017)
64. The magic of Rikke's
materials is that each
substance is totally unique,
but they're all created from
only a handful of bases
(agar, gelatin, casein or
starch) and additions
(natural dyes and food
wastes).
73. The Red Bull Surf Science project has the
objective to develop and test technology in the
harshest conditions possible. This technology
testing has the goal of improving athlete
performance.
80. “Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part
of the world we want to live in. There is sufficient
fresh water on the planet to achieve this. But due
to bad economics or poor infrastructure, every year
millions of people, most of them children, die from
diseases associated with inadequate water supply,
sanitation and hygiene” (United Nations, 2018).
81. https://lifestraw.com/
At LifeStraw, we believe
everyone deserves equitable
access to safe drinking water.
We design beautiful, simple,
and functional products that
provide the highest protection
from unsafe water based on
where and how they will be
used.
86. “Why build houses with trees when forests are
something we want to preserve? Why pay for
electricity, water, and heat when all of it can be
provided off-the-grid using existing materials and
renewable resources like wind, rain, and solar?”
(This is Colossal, 2015)
95. “Assistive technology is any device, system, or
design used by individuals to perform functions
that might otherwise be difficult or impossible”
(Assistive Technology Australia, 2017).
100. Otherlab is an engineering research and
development laboratory based in San
Francisco. They have created the world's
most advanced industrial paper aeroplanes.
The paper gliders that look like stealth
fighters are capable of carrying more than
one kilogram of supplies like blood and
vaccines to those in need (Mashable, 2017).
105. “Using an app on their phone, the data
surfers acquire while in the water becomes
accessible in near real-time to the world-wide
scientific community. But Smartfin is not only
about the data. It is also an effort to connect
surfers and their communities to larger issues
affecting ocean health” (Smartfin, 2017).
108. At 16 years of age, Boyan Slat
saw more plastic bags than fish
when scuba diving in Greece.
He thought: “Why can’t we just
clean this up?” This question
led him to research the plastic
pollution problem for a school
project.
https://theoceancleanup.com
109. He learned about plastic
accumulating in five large
oceanic gyres, the largest one
being the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch.
https://theoceancleanup.com
110. In 2012, Boyan Slat held a
TEDx talk about how to rid the
world’s oceans of plastic using
technology. The video went
viral, and the momentum that
followed allowed him to drop
out of school and found The
Ocean Cleanup.
119. Joel Sartore is the founder of the Photo Ark, a
groundbreaking effort to document species before
they disappear—and to get people to care while
there’s still time.
128. Art and mathematics. “One is the domain of
emotional expression, passion and aesthetics.
The other, a world of steely logic, precision and
truth. And yet scratch the surface of these
stereotypes and one discovers that the two worlds
have much more in common than one might
expect” (Marcus du Sautoy, 2016).
