Ascend & Ripple :
Reconnecting With Physicality in a Digital World
| Designed by : | Ian Tan |
Under the Supervision of Associate Professor Christophe Gaubert.
An exploration into re-imbuing physicality in our manipulation of technological objects, ASCEND and RIPPLE is a series of domestic objects that embody the convergence of interaction, form, and function. Through simple gestures, they alter the atmospheres of light and sound to serve our changing domestic modes.
ASCEND: The further the lamp sphere is pulled, the longer the user is rewarded with light.
RIPPLE: The sliding gesture shifts the speaker between the concave and convex surface, producing either focused or diffused sound.
As a starting point to explore physicality, 2 workshops were designed to investigate gestures, the primary means through which we communicate with objects. Workshop 1 was a study on gestures with familiar objects, while workshop 2 examined gestures with abstract objects.
