Published in The Milan Breakfasts/Does the World Really Need Another Chair? by Design Academy Eindhoven and Premsela, April 2011





How does trust begin, and with what tools have we been equipped to initiate this relationship with the people, environments, and objects that surround us? In this design process, I have continually returned to this diagram of the way a baby processes sensory input in discovering and learning to trust to its mother.




Is there a possibility that a mature adult can return to this level of curiosity, this vitality of new experience, this synaesthetic interweaving of sensory impressions?

My work explores this territory of heightened, doubled, or altered sensations, with a specific focus on our tactile interactions with our exterior environment. I have made several apparatuses for the hands and other parts of the body.




By estranging users from their normal physical motions, the shape and space of their body as it interacts with objects becomes a heightened conscious experience.