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Technolution

Website, image archive & graphic design. The website and the archive of pictures for Technolution, the centre for human technology at LTH, Lund University.

Year
2003–2020
Client
LTH, Lund University
Illustrations
Peter Broberg
  • Technolution: the society of extended human beings, a red figure among houses, wheels and screens
  • From the Vitruvian man to the biotechnical human being
  • Homo sapiens: upright walking, meat eater, advanced tools and a big brain
  • From man-power to horse-power: a red figure leading a horse and cart
  • Walking into the society of technology: a red figure on a stair beside a tree
  • Wind and water power: a windmill and a water wheel
  • Homo megalopolis: a red figure in front of a growing city
  • The challenge of mind expansion: red figures among screens and speech bubbles

In 1999 LTH, the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, set up a centre for Technolution, with the architect Peter Broberg as adjunct professor of Human Technology.

Its idea is that people and technology have grown together, from the first stone tool to the network. Peter told that story in more than a hundred hand-drawn pictures.

technolution.se: Kunskapskonst, the Technolution concept and the pictures, from top to bottom
The Technolution page: the society of extended human beings, the Vitruvian man and the tell pattern

We built technolution.se in several versions from 2003 to 2020 and made the archive of the pictures: every illustration scanned, retouched and prepared for print, from 20 × 20 cm up to 80 × 80 cm. We also designed the books and documents that go with it.

  • Evolution to coquolution: three million years of cooking
    Evolution to coquolution.
  • Entrance of the biotechnical man
    The biotechnical man.
  • Entrance to the techno-society: stone tools for better food
    Entrance to the techno-society.
  • Homo silvaticus: a red figure under a green tree
    Homo silvaticus.
  • Homo logisticus, one of the Homo pictures in the archive
    Homo logisticus.
  • Man’s thirst and three types of water distribution
    Man’s thirst.

Anyone may use the pictures in lectures, talks and writing, with © LTH Peter Broberg as the source.

What we did.

  • Website design & development
  • Image archive & print originals
  • Graphic design
  • Web
  • Archive
  • Print