64 THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT
BLUE GOOD. RED BAD. DON'T WORRY. 2016
ROBBY COLLINS, RADICAL DESIGN RESEARCH (IE)
64 Things To Worry About is a living picture. A grid of diffused lights in a deep wooden frame, designed to be hung on a wall in place of a clock, providing a heat map of the state of the world.
Each light in the 8x8 grid represents a specific danger indicator, including radiation levels, seismic activity, global warming and the use of certain critical words on social media. If most of the lights are in the blue/green range, all is well. If they start shifting to the red end of the spectrum, or turning off, then it's time to gather your loved ones and make your peace with the world.
The frame twinkles gently and updates every ten minutes, providing a quick indication of whether you can continue getting on with your life with an easy mind, or if you should start stocking up on non-perishable goods.
In this era of #fakenews, it's good to have a direct line to the apocalypse.
This work is designed to be treated as a piece of furniture to be hung in every home.
BIO
Robby Collins practices as Radical Design Research, a speculative design house which imagines products of the near future and uses the exploration of these artifacts as a way to reveal the hidden pitfalls in tech solutionism and digital hegemony.