What does it mean?
Exploration of the creation and destruction of meaning. Interactive experience serving to inhibit questioning behaviour of what surrounds us, what it means to us and how we would react in the case of loss.
{experience design, coding, physical computing, illustration, data visualisation}
(2021)
[final user experience]
This project is an exploration of meaning created through destruction. The user makes an origami piece and destroys it with the scissors provided. These scissors are hooked up with an accelerometer which tracks the speed of destruction. A mini thermal printer prints out a data visualisation piece that shows the rate and velocity of the cuts. This receipt serves as a tool for questioning of the experience and acts as a take-away piece that expresses your act of letting go. The receipt is placed in a sleeve that has an explanation of the experience, further question prompts for the user and a key for deciphering the visualisation.
part 1 - creation
[illustrated origami instructions]
I illustrated four versions of origami instructions for the user to have options. This way the user can create a piece more personal to them, not knowing they will have to destroy it.
[origami making setup]
part 2 - destruction
[receipt sleeve]
The design of the sleeve is the visualisation of the cut of piece of origami. The user symbolically takes away the origami in a different form.
[printed data visualisation and circuit]
The visualisation was chosen by using keyboard elements to represent a speed dial sort of system, with the lines more tilted the faster the cut is.
/process
[circuit building, coding & soldering]
