Future Direction
This seems to be of important social matter. The designed products serve as projection surface for individuality and therefore gain mental and emotional status on top of their normal functions. Most importantly, private spaces comes with the properties of a certain decorative- flexibility. They are a mirror image of our personal tastes and a reinforcement of our self-perception. We design our private space to the Me-Space. Therefore, customization is equivalent to ego-boosting.
Research and visualization of my thesis are starting to crystalize my entire concept and have also helped me to identify further my personal interest and profession.
This body of work has potential to be manifested and materialized more precisely and introduced into related fields. This subject matter has great potential of being furthered, as the objects become more intelligent and integrated at a fast pace in our daily lives. I am aiming to keep up with this and hope to make connections with people specializing in electronic objects and behaviors.... I am going to collect new stories, where these relationships, people versus e.os, can be identified—I’ll try to identify it.
I see 3 possible routes:
1. An extensions of the research "Electronic Objects and their People" with "product probes", which will lead to exciting new findings.
Probe 1: Anthropomorphism
Probe 2: Perception
Probe 3: Customization
2. The best way to share the project with others seems to be twofold: in print and online
The book
I will publish the output of my project. Having the project in a book format versus modern technology, will allow the viewer/reader to “slow-down” and reflect upon it and also mingle the text and visualizations in the book with his own eos-encounters. Since my project is focused on “objects” and how we can handle them, it makes much sense to parallel this perspective by presenting material, which can be also “hand-held” and is dominant by physical and haptic quality.
Online
The content will also live online. I am imagining an “interactive-domesticated-online-home” where people have the possibility to add and share their personal stories about their “eos”. I imagine a site, which appears like a social place where users like to retreat to by the end of the day, just like to their home.
3. Market
I will take my research and show it to electronic object orientated companies. I will present to them (in a project oriented workshop), how they can benefit from my project. I want them to be mindful towards creating communication tools. My ideas will be helpful for the furthering of eos as well as for the challenging issues between the human and the machine. My illustrated stories will be suitable for advertising purposes.
My reflections will spur new knowledge: If the eos could or should again reach another level of human like behavior (breathable and temperature adjustable objects) needs to be worked out more clearly during the fellowship-period.
I hope to continue vigorously with my practice right were I left off. All improvement of my practice shall be of service to following my theoretical interest (investigating the relationships between people, between people and things, between people and situations with shifting perspectives and personal experiences).
I am going to further my knowledge about eos and their physical body. I will better my proficiency in handling and translating research into a visual language and bring it to a point where it has crystalized enough to be compellingly and explicitly materialized.
In my future practice I will continue to start building on this foundation - Building on the skills I have learned and gained from Art Center and the MDP department; making the structure as strong and powerful as possible.