Econocaust Project

 

Econocaust group projectThe Econocaust - fired by the outrage we all felt as the financial crisis hit, a group of us got together and produced an ironic and farcical metaphor for the current state of the economy.   Based on a "machine" created, just after the 2nd World war, by Kate's father, Professor W. T. Newlyn and his colleague, Professor B. Phillips -  designed to simulate the flow of the economy - our version followed in the style of Emett's cartoon published in Punch in 1953. The original turned out to be one of the first analogue computers ever built and now resides in the London Science museum with commissioned replicas in universities worldwide.  Our Econocaust has attracted a great deal of attention and  in September 2010 it will be installed on permenant display in Leeds University.  (See Press for reviews).