SHELL
Looking back on my life in MIT, I found “isolation” or “paralysis” as one of the key experiences that I and other people go through. I am not trying to stand on the pessimistic end of life, but sometimes I realize myself shutting off everything other than myself. Overwhelming workload, pressure about doing well, and tiredness from having superficial relationship with others are some reasons I seek for self-isolation.
My project is about giving a person a very intimate and secluded space of one’s own. Shell, made out of fabric and metal frames, is a portable isolation device which you can wear anywhere and anytime you want in order to let you shut off everything of your sight. A person will be able to be completely alone in this newly created void in his room, cafe, or even on a street. The eyehole will be made out fabric one can see through so that the person inside will still be able to see outside.
This device is not necessarily designed to solve a problem. It is not expected to elicit certain reactions from public who see someone wearing this or to cure one’s loneliness. I do, however, expect this tool to help one find oneself calm and posed whenever he or she is stressed from everything he is seeing. It is going to let him not see what he does not want to see but only see the plain emptiness – the membrane between oneself and the external. The person will then be able to be free from anything that bothers him and start thinking solely about him. or not thinking at all.
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yes you are right, this is not a solution to a problem but more as a reflection, in the end it is yourself to over come the “isolation” or “paralysis”. I really like your drawings, especially the second one, it tells the atmosphere so well, though I would never encourage anyone to wear it in the public:) It is a micro-space for you to face yourself.
I really like the heart of your idea a lot. I think it’s a subject a lot of people here at MIT feel, but one that everyone tends to ignore or leave out of discussion. But it’s real and important and totally natural and okay – even good sometimes for someone to seek isolation. All in all I think the project really does well in expressing the emotion; I think it’s a perfect symbol, but also an action and shelter for the emotions.