DESIGN WEEK.

The project we did with 'Kin' www.kin-design.com, was featured in Design Week magazine.

3 WEEK RESEARCH PROJECT @ KIN.

MAKING BAGS @ KIN.

PORTFOLIO

NOKIA INTERACTIVE SEATING

NOKIA/KIN

A live project proposal for Nokia, working on a fictional brief with Kin, an interactive design company. In this group project we were briefed to designed an exhibition, which would illustrated the concept of Nokia’s new social location technology. Our group of four designed an interactive seating area. Initially in the centre of the seating a projection shows words randomly floating around. When a person sits down, the area around them illuminates and the word on the projection swarm towards them. When another individual joins them, the area around them also illuminates as well as the space between them. The light is used to map the social connection between people. The words are also attracted by the second person and form trail between them. The words ask and answer the question ‘what are you doing?’ creating a fictional conversation. The same principal applies when more people join the seating.

http://www.kin-design.com/docs/goldsmiths-200903.html

ACROPHOBIA CHAIR

The chair is a concept design, intended for people suffering with Acrophobia. The chair can be attached to a place of height and rocks forward, so that the user can indulge in the fear safely. Though the indulgence of experience the Acrophobic sufferer may be able to cope with their fear easier.

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION.

Westminster is registered under the serious organised crime police act, 2005 (SOCPA). The act imposes behavioural restrictions, so that demonstrations and any form of deviant or anti-social behaviour has to be approved in order to perform the behaviour. This has created a controlled area, which is stripped of individuality and freedom of speech.

The aim of my work is not for conventional demonstration purposes. The balloon provides the user with an anonymous form of communication. By handing the balloons out to people who normally pass directly through the space without challenging their behaviour or thought, the public is directly forces to question how they would conventionally interact within the space. A question is attached to the balloon, allowing the user to express their desires, confessions or protests. This is an anonymous form of communication, which could potentially provide a connection between one individual to another unknown individual. The balloon encourages the user to communicate something that they would normally not reveal, because of its anonymous nature. The balloon is also stamped and addressed allowing the possibility of a three-way communication, which is entirely successful through chance.