Designing products that directly address the concept of retail therapy: Buying things that make satisfy your daily insecurities. What do these products look like? How do they affect your ability to reflect on your day? Object 1: When you're feeling emotional anxiety your hood will start playing back different levels of ambients sounds to help pin point and contextualize the moments in which you feel insecure via vibration speakers. Object 2: This object will be able to replay your emotional ups and downs of the day through an array of soothing and un-soothing smells within the span of 4 hours.

 

Soli is a pair of objects that are inspired by the concept of "retail therapy" and the type of emotional insecurities and anxieties that lead to material coping mechanisms. These pieces are designed specifically to address emotional insecurities and focus on the "retail" part of retail therapy into products that address one's daily mental micro aggressions.

Recognition

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Product 1

This interactive hood acts as a way for people to interpret their daily insecurities through sound. With the use of a vibration speaker placed above the jawline this hood shields from the public eye creating a meditative experience while providing both an auditory and tactile reflection of emotional anxiety. To reflect different types of bio rhythms this hood utilizes make meditative sounds, like the Tibetan singing bowl, to act as an auditory notifier. The vibration speaker allows for the user to be fully aware of their environment while still feel and listen to the sounds emitting from the hood. This product allows for people to have a sense of personal space and anonymity.

 

Product 2


This item takes data gathered through heart rate and blood pressure, that indicates when you have felt emotional anxiety throughout the day, and plays it back in a variety of positive and negative smells within a period of four hours. It was meant for at home use after a full day of work or school. Like aromatherapy, this item relies on stimulating your olfactory receptors that lead to different changes in mood and emotions. It acts as way to help you reflect on what emotionally strains you everyday and encourage you to be more conscientious of your mental lifestyle.

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