Envision

Express

Abstraction

For my final identity vessels, I ended up making a Library tree, a person trapped inside of a book, and a feelings forest. For my library tree it ties to memories of me reading under a tree and feeling calm and relaxed. You use the object by going and getting books to read, or just admiring the nature. The second identity vessel is a person trapped inside a book. This ties to a memory of me getting so invested in a book that I couldn't think about anything other than the book, and it felt like I was sucked into the book's world. You can use the object by looking at the inside of the book and seeing a little person reading. My third object was a feelings forest, which is associated with the memories of me feeling stuck with overstimulated and stressed emotions.

Lo-fi prototyping

I started my project by thinking about my identity and memories that relate to my identity. I thought of memories relating to nature, trees in specific, reading, TV, and colors that convey emotions. I then tried to think of how these memories and my identity can be turned into objects. I also did lots of sketching, drawing, and writing to help me brainstorm about ideas for objects.

After this I began to turn my ideas into paper prototypes and later more finished cardboard prototypes. I made a paper prototype of a trampoline, an old fashioned TV, and a paper prototype of a tree with shelves for books and a hollow and very colorful inside. I also made a cardboard version of that where I incorporated more nature, and bookshelves on branches on the outside of the tree.