Project name |
BuyProduct |
Organisation |
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Persons |
Nitipak Samsen |
City |
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Country |
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Period |
2009 |
URL |
http://www.dotmancando.info/index.php?/projects/buyproduct/ |
Tags |
architecture,
design,
trees,
environment,
Dot Samsen,
visualization,
product,
global warming,
CO2,
project,
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Text |
Carbon credit brings the ‘convenience’ back to the ‘inconvenient truth’. Global warming has been driven by capitalism, now we are trying to solve global warming through capitalism. Is this possible? Should we save the planet for the planet’s sake or for money?
From an ecological perspective, CO2 is a byproduct of the living, either directly or indirectly. From the economic perspective, CO2 may become the world's largest commodity market. What do we consider the price of our own byproducts?
This project aims to criticise the carbon trading system as well as raise awareness of how good we are at destroying the planet.
One problem is how to show the intangible amount of CO2. BreathSink is one simple way of visualization carbon footprint. BreathSink is dry timber which has same CO2 as 1 day of breathing. However, in term of design, what is the function of this BreathSink? |