你的作品集只在追求酷炫炸天的美感,看似牛逼,实际空虚,你的创新其实常常无迹可寻而你可能还不知道,你的作品集与真正优秀的作品集之间,到底差在哪里？
面试官要的不是假大空的创意
世界*院校的设计者的脑洞可不是空穴来风,他们作品的触角早已伸到你还未曾踏足的领域。
We now have the technology to destroy，the planet on which we live,but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.
气候变化、粮食匮乏、人口膨胀、物种减少、海洋酸化,我们正面对着前所未有的生态挑战，所有这些危机都提醒着我们，人类不能再坐以待毙，现在，我们应该比历史上的任何时候都要更团结一心。但似乎，在“后真相”时代的传播渠道下，真相越来越变成我们所选择相信的而不是我们应当相信的。可你是否想过，我们还能在这样一条,忽略真相、忽略种种向人类逼近的威胁的道路上放空多久？
圣马丁未来材料系，正在打破这样的僵局
Materiality is the starting point of our design process;taking the things we can touch,feel,interact with.
鼓励思考、鼓励调研鼓励你从任何角度、任何学科切入来探讨未来。
Our aim is to actively re-think the future.Through collaboration,risk-taking and blurring the worlds of craft,science and technology we look beyond existing boundaries to anticipate our future needs,desires and challenges for the 21st century.
Finding answer is never simple or straightforward but at Material Futures we believe that we have an obligation to never stop trying.
而在今年圣马丁学生的作品中就可以看到，他们已经意识到了直视未来的紧迫性，他们开始尝试用全球性的视角去思考人类的生存。
The sheer diversity of projects this year shows a willingness to expand the horizons of design and find new,often very personal approaches to dealing with the uncertain future,from virtual-reality rape to fast-fashion,entomophagy to space mining,our students explore the moral,social,environmental and ethical implications of how our actions today could drastically impact the way we live tomorrow.
而在今年圣马丁学生的作品中就可以看到，他们已经意识到了直视未来的紧迫性，他们开始尝试用全球性的视角去思考人类的生存。
Can you rise to propose new,more sustainable alternatives to the challenges of our changing world?
那么，来自圣马丁未来材料系学生究竟研究了什么？
It’s time to step outside the“consumeless”paradigm dominating sustainable fashion practice,instead,we must find ways of ensuring that if cheap fast-fashion is here to stay,at very least we must reduce its environmental impact.
So,can we use 3D-printing technology to recycle waste textile fibres into fast-fashion garments?
Entomophagy,the consumption of insects as food is a cultural taboo.However,if we could ensure the welfare of the insect,as well as its subsequent human slaughter and hygienic processing,shouldn’t we consider it a nutritionally superior substitute for animals in a more sustainable future?
The older we get,the more chance we have of developing certain skin cancers caused by UV radiation.Despite these cancers being treatable if caught early on,most people aren’t always aware of the situation until it is too late.We must make the invisible visible.Our skins health is critical for our long-term health and survival.
Many objects that we use sometimes for just seconds can take many thousands of years to break down and can leach dangerous chemicals into the environment.
It is of great importance to find natural alternatives to short-lived synthetic everyday objects which,rather than taking several thousands of years to degrade,take just minutes.
If traditional farmers have any chance of competing against the larger commercial maga farms,then we must find ways of democratizing the technologies which allow these bigger farms to monopolise the market.
How will we preserve the culture,provenance and craft of traditional cheesemaking in a future where dairy farming is no longer sustainable?
How could recycling the human body for its material lead to a more holistic re-evaluation of our role and consumption of natural resources?
Given the rapid development and precision of CRISPR Technology,a process that allows the permanent modification of genes within organisms,which could lead to us very soon being able to modify human prior to birth,isn’t it about time we considered collecvtively as a society what we do and do not want to permit?
不管你是什么专业的学生，其实都可以从圣马丁学生的作品课题中获得思考。很多学生只一味求新，却忘记了这份“新”到底源于什么?作品集中的创意，并不是单纯的天马行空，肆意捏造。未来，你的面试官想要看到的，一定是基于内容上的思辨。它是否建立于充分的调研；它是否具有一定的社会价值；它是否是着眼于解决实际问题下的思考。
你是否有认真思考过你可以为人类拥有更好的生活质量做什么？也许，你可以从用心做一份“真材实料”的作品集开始。
一场lecture，两场workshop，上周中央圣马丁未来材料系主任Kieren Jones空降一沙与大家一起探讨了艺术、技术与科技。而未来，还有更多关于优秀作品集的正确打开方式，一沙等你一起解锁。
