By Rachel Beaney

12.16pm.

OK, so I didn’t make it to Decipher Code 2020 at 11am. I’m in line for another session now. Instead, I ran to a few other friends and we headed to a few other Creative Nexus exhibitions which were really cool.

The first of which was a HeartBeat monitor. Accompanied with a video art installation, where Natasha Nolan, who created the project, was lying on a bed of nails, having recorded her heartbeat. We went into the room and, using an ultrasound device, had our heartbeat amplified throughout the room.

I was hoping to see if we could sync our heartbeats due to the influence of the louder, more dominant heartbeat, but due to my heart murmur, all I could hear was this wishy-washy noise not unlike a whale dying.

And, I know, I know, I promised better pics, but this was in a dark room, so all I have to show for it it gripping silhouettes of people with the heartbeat monitor.

Along the way we noticed an art exhibition of post it notes.

The idea was to pull off the post it note and throw on the ground the brand or object we thought we could do without. I reckon I could do without MTV.  As my friend noted – no one thought they could do without Google…

Then, before we were booked into the see Decipher Code 2020 we headed to Inside Out a community garden project.

Festival-goers can select a plant to look after over the next six months. I selected some parsley, then made a video blog (which will be emailed to me in three months to see how I’m going looking after my plant!)

My friends also took some plants, and we’ll see how we go nurturing our plants for the next few months!

I’m in line for Decipher Code 2020 – should be great!

Until later,
Rach.

Tags: design, future, futurists, sustainability

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