Brian Smith: A3

SKETCHES:

PROCESS PHOTOS:

          

PROTOTYPE 2: NECK COVER

MINDFUL INTERACTION:

To create mindful awareness with an object that is essentially an elaborate ear warmer is a difficult task.  I am attempting to foster a sense of awareness by breaking from any preconceptions of what an ear warmer should be.  Challenging both the aesthetics, materiality, and functionality of the ear warmer, I am hoping to create an object that clearly is an ear warmer, but challenges what it means to be an ear warmer.  

In future iterations of the project I want to foster user-object interaction by having some way of forcing warm air into the warmer, possibly through a hand powered mechanism or some similar device.  In doing so the user will be able to change the effectiveness of the ear warmer to suit their needs.