London Design Biennale 2016: transparent tubes transport note-filled capsules around the west wing of Somerset House in this installation by Autoban, which is Turkey's addition to the first London Design Biennale.
Photograph is by Gareth Gardner.
The Istanbul studio's interactive Wish Machine installation asks visitors to the Biennale to jot down a wish on a piece of paper, seal it in a capsule and launch it into a system of pressurised pipes.
The capsules are first sucked around a section of pipework laid out in a hexagonal outline and surrounded by mirrors, and then out of the room to an unknown destination.
Photograph is by Gareth Gardner.
Autoban founders Seyhan Özdemir and Sefer Ça?lar based the installation on a pneumatic messaging system developed in the 19th century, as well as the concept of the wish tree. Notes and offerings are typically tied to the branches of wish trees in a practice followed by several cultures and religions, including Turkey's Anatolian faith.
Photograph is by Gareth Gardner.
"The Wish Machine is a contemporary version of the wish tree, in which people make wishes of hope," Seyhan Özdemir told Dezeen at a preview of the installation today.

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"It's a metaphor for people's wishes and hope, which we think we all need right now in the world," she added.
"You can make your wish, write on a [piece of] paper...