Bachelor Thesis, 2014
What characterizes our relationships to everyday objects? Which qualities do we seek for, when we interact with them? How can enriching and resilient relationships look like?
My bachelor’s project dealt with questions about the roles
household electronics play in our everyday life, and whether through our daily interaction or use we build personified relationships with them as they perform as archetypes (Jungs psychoanalytic theory) and represent certain voices or figures, that we can associate with. The impetus for the project was the idea of personifying a product, for example as an illusionist, agent or anti-hero.
As a result, three different performative objects illustrate different notions and qualities of those personifications, thus it puts an relational approach in practice. By exploring relational co-existence, deep emotional bond and expectations between objects and humans, new interesting qualities such as temporality, vividness and disruption are (re-)introduced to the world of household products.
- A spherical, rolling alarm clock that wakes you up by touch and movement
- An ephemeral lamp, that melds away…
- Mute, non-sounding glasses
Original title: Things as actors, designing performative objects (engl.)
supervised by Prof. Dr. Brandes und Prof. Dr. Erlhoff
BA Integrated Design, Köln International School of Design, TH Köln
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