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Ingeborg Bloem creates beautifully useless products that question the logic of design. This satirical project invites reflection on functionality, control, and meaning in a world obsessed with performance and innovation.
Uselful Useless Objects
Useless Beauty
In a world obsessed with functionality, these objects proudly fail to serve. From a solar panel on toast to lips on wheels, each design embraces absurdity with precision. They are not broken—they were never meant to work. Their function is to question function itself.
Design as Satire
This series plays with the language of product design—recognizable forms, materials, and expectations—only to twist them into visual jokes and surreal statements. It is a satire on consumerism, control, and the cult of purpose, inviting viewers to laugh, pause, and reconsider what “useful” means.
Objects That Think
Behind the playfulness lies a deeper critique: about overdesign, mental overload, and systems we trust blindly. These useless objects behave like mirrors. They don’t work—but they work on you. They reveal the absurdity of a world where meaning is mass-produced and beauty is expected to perform.
About Ingeborg Bloem
She is the founder of projects like The Temple of Peace, Buddytalks, MUQU, (also@DDW 2025) and often collaborates with engineers, philosophers, refugees, and artists.
