Awakening
Awakening is a speculative treatment centre that encourages the release of Oxytocin in elderly beings embracing mortality and suffering from loneliness. Can technology replace human touch? Through three bodily experiences, Embrace, Immersion and Levitation are three spaces that explore the body’s interactions with advanced technologies such as AI and low technologies to prompt the body into a state of relaxation.
AWAKENING.
A treatment centre to encourage the release of Oxytocin in elderly beings embracing mortality and suffering from loneliness.
Ethics of Technologies: Awakening is a collaboration with my peer, Cynthia Cheng. We aim to question the ethics behind technology replacing human touch and if this is even possible. We experiment with conceptual underpinnings, research and materiality to deal with the question, can technology replace human touch?
Awakening is a speculative treatment centre that encourages the release of Oxytocin in elderly beings embracing mortality and suffering from loneliness. The world is experiencing its first mass epidemic of loneliness and social isolation due to advanced technologies and a series of pandemics. Elderly beings are the ones suffering most. Could AI assist in providing a new form of touch?
Project Film: https://youtu.be/HEAE4dT_GpM
Research and Diagrams of Audience and Effect.
Floor Plans and Elevations.
Detailed Diagrams.
Through three bodily experiences, Awakening stimulates the release of the stress reducing hormone, Oxytocin. Embrace, Immersion and Levitation are three spaces that explore the body’s interactions with advanced technologies such as AI and low technologies to prompt the body into a state of relaxation.
Embrace Render.
Immersion Render.
Levitation Render.
