Chanmi Song

ALIVE

This project, which received inspiration from the relationship between animals and humans, makes us think about the relationship between humans and products. Our current relationship with products is cold and cruel. We are facing a lot of environmental and other problems as we are living in mass consumerism and throw-away culture. It would an important step to think about and redefine the relationship between people and artifacts before accepting radical changing/developing technology.

Three everyday objects are redesigned in the perspective of ‘what if products were alive?’ to carry questions which are ‘can our relationship differ?’, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if we have a better relationship with products?’

Speaker dances with you and also sometimes dances by itself.
Clock is happy to see you and tells you the time. It whispers time for late-night.
Lamp falls asleep with you. You need to wake it up and stroke it to let it sleep.

 

MOVE

 

The way people use open space/communal space can be particularly divergent. Therefore open space should be comfortable to use not only for socialising but also to distance oneself from another. Controlling distance between people in communal space has become more important since coronavirus has arrived.

Move is a collection of furniture that allows users to make new arrangements of objects to build their own comfortable environment. collections are short bench, high bench, two side tables, and wall.

Each object that is perfectly functional on its own is designed with a simple shape so that it can blend naturally with each other when they are used together. Details of the furniture show that they can collaborate with each other and the lightweight of it indicates the ability to move. Through these elements, users are allowed to move furniture easily and make their own configuration of furniture.