Ethics in Design
A project meant to take an impersonal human right into a tangible and practical product, in cooperation with Italian students.
You You Yang
Pakwing man
Jesper Schwachöfer
Veronica Cornacchini
Erika Cellai
Federico Perruccio
Responsibilities:
Conceptual development
Technological implementation
Prototyping.
This Module we cooperated with Italian students from Florence to design a piece of clothing, inspired by the values behind an article of the Declaration of Human Rights. Using a variety of brainstorms and choreography workshops, a concept of sharing and caring was developed, in the spirit that while the Declaration is a rather abstract declaration, that people agree with, people do not take responsibility in actually empowering this, they just don’t object when other people do it. We felt that through design we could at least raise awareness, and acceptability of a certain type of sharing, hopefully making people think about and act instead of remaining passive in other types of caring.
The concept is a jacket that stores energy, which is generated by either being in certain areas, or charging in a regular fashion. This energy can also for example power heating or entertainment. When a person with a full jacket meets a person with less energy, energy can be shared. Sharing is done by touching the other person’s jacket, while the amount of area touched influences the speed with which the energy is shared.