The first video explores the need for equality and respect of amputees and physical disabled people. The majority of the video is centered around the creation of a prosthetic and how that may carry a certain power for the person, specifically, Viktoria Modesta, she has created an artistic outlet where her disability really drives her creativity and artistic expression.
The second video explains how an technological extension of the body can form the way you might look at life. The speaker has the inability to see color and live a greyscale life, which has pushed him to use a device where he is able to hear the pitches of the color. He explains how this tool has led to the creation of an alternative definition of beauty, in his speech he shares his discovery as he observes famous speeches, celebrities’ faces and how his control of colors can also express musical songs and emotional overtones.
Lucy McRae calls herself a body architect and explains how the biology of a human body can inspire textiles and her fashion designs. One interesting detail mentioned is her invention of a pill that is ingested and once a body perspires, a scented perfume. I found that her ability to expand via design based on the human body and natural characteristics.
