Institute of Contemporary Arts

Vending Machine

Vending Machine

The Vending Machine encourages those buying sweets to think about the impact of their choices as they buy apparently insignificant consumables. You choose how much you pay, and rather than affecting what you get, it affects what the next person gets. If you pay more, you act for the greater good, if you pay less, someone else gets less. The Vending Machine is going to spend a year touring the UK, visiting pubs, community centres, leisure centres and galleries, pretending to be a normal vending machine. Its first location is the ICA bar and Team, the design collective responsible for the Vending Machine, will celebrate the start of the tour with a night of music and sweets on 3 August. Team are currently hoping to get the vending machine adopted by a major sweets company.

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