AUGMENTING PROSTHETICS  // Lecturer - Sarosh Mulla from OH.NO.SUMO

( First Year | Semester 2 |  Auckland University of Teachnology )

 

Design and fabrication of spatial prosthetics to redefine perception of constructed and natural                             landscapes.

Two assertions underpin this speculative project:
1. Our perception of nature is mediated at all times by the constructed. 
2. Opportunity exists in all spaces for designers of thrift and skill.
The sites we work within, fields of infinite stimuli and experience, are heavily 
 

OUR APPROACH // with Tanya Lim and Sok Chanarun Kong

 

Our objective for this project was to demonstrate the relationship between man and nature. We were asked to reconsider environments we had orginially deemed strictly natural or constructed. Could a garden really be defined as natural when it is man who arranges and tends it?

 

Our stance on this that even cities - The Epitome of Constructed - have been built almost entirely around elements of nature. We wanted to incorporate the idea of the nature being ever present inour project. Our device was to depend on nature to be functional. The process should remind people of nature's significant amongst our society. To aid us in presenting this relationship between the constructed and natural, we were encouraged to use methods of augmentation. 

 

Two senses that people are heavily dependent on in the current days is sight and sound. By transforming how information is received by the two, we should hopefully promote a change in perspective.