A project by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pauline Rip suggests how three mythical creatures might become part of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Building on real histories, French designer Rip has imagined how community traditions might have developed in response to the believed presence of Bigfoot, elves and reptilian humanoids.
The project is titled That's One Small Step for Bigfoot, One Giant Leap for Rationalists.
Pauline Rip has designed artefacts for each fictional cultural practice
Rip has created three fictional cultural practices, each designed to meet the criteria of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list, and created objects associated with these practices.
She hopes to show how a community tradition might have value even if it is based on fiction. "Who decides what is important"" she said. "Does something have to be true to be valuable and worth preserving""

One culture centres around night expeditions in search of Bigfoot
Rip's first practice is based around the myth of Bigfoot, a large creature believed to roam wild in North America.
Building on the work of real-life cryptozoologists, who search for legendary animals, she has outlined a tradition where the residents of a village between Canada and Washington State go out at night in search of the so-called yeti.
Rip has created shoes based a real pair worn by a researcher in the 1950s
She has created two objects as artefacts of this practice.
The first are ...