“No one can win against kipple, he said, except temporarily and maybe in one spot” Philip K Dick, 1968, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’.

Useless objects by design or state are collected to cover all horizontal surfaces within a space generating swathes of colourful chaos.

"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape [newspaper]. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself... the entire universe is moving towards a final state of total, absolute kippleization.”
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick, 1968

Philip K Dick’s term kipple has been described as “domestic entropy” — the physical manifestation of spent and misguided human energy in everyday life.

The installation and series of images explores the kipple's parallels with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, a theory describing how all heat in the universe flows from a hot ordered state into a cold disordered one and which predicts the eventual heat death of the universe.

Taking these concepts and extending them to the production of contemporary designed objects and the need to question their validity in the world and the psychological effect they have on us. The installation questions the boundaries between beauty and usefulness, luxury and necessity, addressing the epic proportions of material waste created by humankind.

On as part of the London Design Festival from 13th to 21st September 2014.

The First Law Of Kipple

The First Law of Kipple London Design Week 2014