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	James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have been collaborating on projects since the concept of the Audio Tooth Implant was first conceived in October 2000.

Aims & objectives	Recognizing that for each placated consumer of technology there is an unsatisfied, complicated or strange one. Auger-Loizeau combine a range of disciplines including engineering, fine art and product design to build products offering services that contrast and question current design ideology, where development is mostly aimed towards a super-efficient, multi-functional utopia for a homogenous user. Our work is motivated by observations of both everyday and unusual interrelations between users and products as a way to explore the resulting complications and pleasures that create new behaviours, social anomalies, and needs.	Through building conceptual products and creating new scenarios and services they hope to instigate a broader analysis of what it means to exist in a technology rich environment and its cultural implications for the present and the near future.

Biographies	James Auger Work Tutor/Research Fellow Design Interactions Royal College of Art, UK 2005–Present Designer Miyake Design Studio (MDS), JP 2005 Research Associate Media Lab Europe, IE 2002–2005 Education MA(RCA) Design Products Royal College of Art, UK 2001 BA(Hons) Product Design Glasgow School of Art, UK 1995 Awards Köln Klopfer (Cologne Thumper) Designer of the Year 2002 Köln Institute of Design (KISD), DE 2003 Design for Our Future Selves "Social Tele-presence" Helen Hamlyn Research Centre Royal College of Art, UK 2001	Jimmy Loizeau Work Design Consultant Freelance, UK 2004–Present Research Associate Media Lab Europe, IE 2002–2004 Education MA(RCA) Design Products Royal College of Art, UK 2001 MA Fine Art Birmingham College of Art, UK 1991 BA(Hons) Fine Art Maidstone College of Art, UK 1989 Awards Future Products Award "Audio Tooth Implant" (Auger–Loizeau) Science Museum (London), UK 2001–2002 Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers Rio Tinto Scholarship, UK 2000 Blueprint Award, UK 1999

Related links	Design Interactions (RCA) Media Lab Europe Design Products (RCA) Köln Klopfer The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers Helen Hamlyn Award Issey Miyake

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