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While lots of museums have tried to cash in on the Night at the Museum film franchise, hosting sleepovers among the exhibits, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is upping the ante by a few more nights (and weekends). They’ve just announced “Month at the Museum,” a project/marketing effort to find one person to spend 30 days living in their 14-acre building, from October 20th to November 18th. They’ve just launched a hunt for someone who is available to eat, sleep, and breathe nothing but science and industry for that period (and one who can also get off work for a month), with semi-finalists picked in late August and a winner chosen sometime, presumably, in mid-September. To lighten the financial load a bit, the win also comes with $10,000. And it’s not just limited to Chicagoans, so if spending a month in a museum sounds appealing, jump on it. Here’s a quick description of some of the requirements:

Physical and other specific requirements of the position may include:

• Sleeping in confined or “untraditional” spaces.
• Significant walking around the Museum, including climbing stairs frequently.
• Lifting up to 40 lbs. (Of what, we don’t know yet. We’ll think of something.)
• Ability to stand for significant periods of time. (This might include working the Museum floor, performing live science demos, blowing up chemicals in our “Bangs, Flashes and Fire” show, and other really fun stuff.)
• Meeting, interacting and socializing with crowds of Museum guests every day…with a smile.
• Working on a computer daily to write about your amazing experiences.
• Speaking English for demonstrations and other appearances.

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pHere’s another project about disgust (see a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/lynn_lim_leverages_ick__16814.asp”Lynn Lim’s Leveraging Ick/a). Katrin Baumgarten’s emAesthetics of Disgust/em includes a set of light switches that react in nauseating ways, from prickling hairs to oozing mucous. See the video above for a sample./p

pThe objects were made to bring attention to banal moments in our everyday environment; what might make a light switch both repellant and attractive?/p

blockquoteThis work consists of multiple designs of an everyday object, each time based on a different approach to disgust, and to examine the provoked reactions. It consists of a wall installation of 14 switches transformed in a disgusting way. Every time a switch is pressed, a virtual light-bulb on a screen is lighting up as a feedback for the test-person. Through its simplicity and its everyday occurrence, the interaction with a switch has been marginalised into subconscious behaviour. We do not recognize its existence anymore, although this elementary form of interaction is a basic part of our life and controls our use of energy. I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated by the disgusting transformation of the switches./blockquote

pKatrin’s made a few other objects that also utilize disgust: Disgusted Objects (think surface that get goosebumps) and Intimate Touch Communication (pseudo-sexual, remote interactions with strangers). See them all a href=”http://katrinbaumgarten.de/project/my-work/”here/a. /p

pMore after the jump./p

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pThis year a href=”http://www.designphiladelphia.org/”Design Philadelphia/a happens October 7-17th, with an extended submission deadline of July 30th. If you’re interested in hostin an exhibition, open studio, book, signing, lecture, runway show, workshop, competition, street happening, product launch (and etc), get the word into the committee ASAP. Guidelines and submission instructions are available a href=”www.designphiladelphia.org”here/a./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/submit_to_design_philadelphia__16958.asp”(more…)/a
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