I am obsessed with tangibility. Of course, it hasn’t always been like this. Being more so a post-human designer, I must step outside of what is normal within today's context to design for the futures that have not been imagined yet. Creativity and aesthetics play a key role in creating conversations about tomorrow as it creates a tangible connection between concepts and realities.
In my first attempt at a final bachelor project, I designed a book that takes inspiration from an old book printed in 1995 to Buddhism and integrated them to work in harmony to create a deliverable.
Besides the conceptual creativity part, I have always enjoyed the physical aesthetic relationships between designs and their narratives. I grew up as a fan of designs that could not be correlated with a certain time such as the Wassily Chair. That is why I try to avoid following trends that can be associated with fashion waves in design. This approach resonates well with the values of transparency and honesty in design stated in my vision.
Within my time in the TU/e in every project I made for courses, I assigned myself the challenge of implementing a different aesthetic medium. In project 3 while I was working on social capital at TP, I focused on using social encounters to create an aesthetic interaction that would be physicalized to be demonstrated. My biggest development in this area happened in my second year, while I was working in the project Feng, which was also when I first got introduced to speculative design as we were creating soundscapes for a future home. For that project, I worked on designing literal metaphors of informative sounds as another interaction layer with our homes.
In the future I aim to focus my efforts on aesthetics onto the physical product design world a bit more to create tangible interactions in which I can implement my values. That is why my final bachelor project un-Compliant mechanisms focuses so heavily on tangible interactions around self-reflection.
Within un-Compliant mechanisms, I took my visual thinking and challenged it with an altered approach to aesthetics by making it about “feelings”. This meant that aesthetics now became multi-disciplinary, ranging from visual to audible to tangible. And I aim to pursue this route of multidisciplinary aesthetic interactions in the future.
