What can we do in the face of the ever-worsening climate crisis? This project titled Alignment Problem presents two apps that attempt to have an effect. The first app limits your screentime on your phone based on the carbon emissions associated with its usage.
It links your digital wellness to ecological limits, but it is a fig leaf: a few grams of carbon saved is nothing substantial. The second app takes a different tack: it collects pledges of money toward buying a company responsible for 1% of global emissions and running it into the ground.
Alignment Problem, photo: Thomas Thwaites
Alignment Problem, photo: Thomas Thwaites
Alignment Problem, photo: Thomas Thwaites
Bio
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Photo: Norman PosseltThomas Thwaites
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Thomas Thwaites is an award-winning design researcher and author of two acclaimed books, The Toaster Project and Goatman. His work is in the permanent collections of museums including the V&A and the Boijmans and is exhibited worldwide. He has an MA from the Royal College of Art, and a BSc. from University College London.