DejaVu

Brief / Concept

Dejà-Vu is a collection of wearable and fashionable objects. It consists in a set of fashion accessories designed as highly-recognizable elements which belong to the mainstream fashion and accessories imagery: a pocket clock, gloves, a fan, a binocular. These iconic objects embody specific telephony functionalities which were extracted from the cold corporeality of cell phones (agenda, camera, contact list, phone calling) and associated to a tangible and iconic shape and appearance.

Design Process

Mobile telephony is one of the most promising and dynamic media technologies. The goal of Mobile Embodiments workshop is to expand and rebalance the “compressed corporeality” of the mobile phone, offering to it new bodies in which it can live, thus generating a phenomenology and interaction paradigms that are currently denied. In DejaVu, the mobile equips itself with new prostheses, makes explicit its own sensory apparatus, and proposes new aesthetics and experiences. The workshop aims at defining a “new corporeality” for the mobile phone, balancing immateriality and miniaturization with the human dimensions which are central to our perception of the world.