Frank Kolkman is
a hardware hacker
that helps organisations imagine alternative technological futures. He applies design to craft
tangible narratives
that challenge existing technical, economic and social norms. To offer new perspectives and to provoke ethical debate, but ultimately to influence decision making today.


Frank has built
a robot for diy surgery,
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he has co-created
strategies to cure rare diseases using fruit flies2
and he has researched how
 shared products
3
affect economic precarity. He experimented with
inducing out-of-body experiences
4
to make you less afraid of dying and with
machines to make you instantly relax.
5
He explores
healthcare futures
6
for Philips Experience Design and at the moment he is attempting to recreate
the overview effect
7
 from Earth.