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Metacycle aims to optimize the creative potential of artists
and designers by reuniting them within a virtual community serving the common objective of prolonging the life span
of consumer products. This international virtual community
would foster links between consumers wanting to renew their
material goods and the creative talents that can offer them
innovative solutions that lessen the damaging impacts that
traditional mass consumption causes to the environment.
The goal of this project is to develop an interactive framework through which consumers can benefit from unique and
innovative updates to products whose usefulness is being
put into question. The implementation of such a new virtual
community describes a new paradigm for the creation of
objects in which users can participate themselves in the
formulation of their material world. Relying heavily on the
exploitation of Rapid Prototyping technologies, the pooling
of a large number of creative minds allows the generation
of a new category of unique products that favour increased
attachment through personalization.
As researchers, the interest of this project resides in the fact
that it leads us to widen our spectrum of activity, through the
promotion of our work to a large public. This project moves
our work out of the lab and heads towards the people who will
benefit from such a sustainable design approach. We have the
strong intention of creating a broad network and to collaborate
with other researchers, research institutes, designers, inventors
as well as the public at large. Our interest is to put in practice
our research and to share ideas with people who have similar
ethical and environmental concerns.
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