Home Grown
Home Grown is a bio-based collection of objects created as alternative tools to interact with our digital products.
Inspired by the lack of mindfulness regarding the sourcing and recycling of materials for technology, Home Grown has been sourced from local materials from the UK & Ireland and created using traditional craft techniques.
It uses ambient technology as a visual language to uncover the relationship between these objects and the user, exploring how levels of care towards these within our daily interactions, can create a deeper understanding and longevity within the everyday object.
Locality
Moving away from the current multi-national ingredient list of current technologies, can an alternative be derived from a reduced ingredient list using locally sourced materials?
This work explores local conductive and bio-based materials that could create speculative alternatives for the current multinational ingredient list within technologies today, replacing the metal components and interfaces whilst reducing the material, and the making process, to a localised area.
Mindful Interaction
Generating stories and thoughts on mindfulness towards the everyday objects in our home, not treating the object as ‘us and them’ but a cohabiting together. Bringing mindfulness into our daily interactions with the environment.
Essentially Home Grown is not about generating a ‘Hero’ solution or idea to save the planet, but stimulating alternative materials, methods and stories of interaction to create more mindful approaches towards the everyday object.
