TRANSPOSE:
Interaction Design, Life Centred Design
November 2020 | Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design | 1 week project
Role: Ideation, Video Editing, Synthesis
Tool: Deep Nature Principle, Premier Pro & After Effects
Team: Alejandro Segura, Jose Javarria, Christoffer Trexller
Advisor: Rebecca Mora
DESING OPPORTUNITY
We wanted to explore LCD (Life Centred Design) as a design tool to explore a design opportunity. So we started our process by exploring different design mentors that excited us!
After exploring 4 mentors - we decided to settle for the Stinking Corpse Lily Flower
We decided to then look more deeply into the mentor so we could flesh out it’s Function, Deep principle & Life principle to use for our process
We decided that we really liked the deep principle of playful trickery and wanted to take this forward
we mapped out all our current thoughts, themes, groupings, to understand what aligned with the deep principle of playful trickery and what did not, so we could develop a HMW
After much ideation, we landed on Transpose; uses playful trickery to enjoy unpleasant sensations (noise pollution).
What is Transpose?
After many iterations, we landed on one that we all felt was interesting & relevant
Transpose; headphones that turn unpleasant sounds into beautiful melody
Transpose is a device that uses playful trickery to help people enjoy unpleasant sensations. In particular this project hones in on noise pollution. It was created for people who experience noise pollution more frequently, i.e city workers who need to cross busy streets with construction noise in the background, or commuters on a bus who often experience the constant beeping of cars during rush hour.
Transpose was designed within an exercise which explored how concepts in nature influence the man-made world. Transpose was inspired by the Rafflesia Arnoldii plant, more commonly known as Corpse Lily or Stinking Corpse Lily. This plant has a brown coloration and emanates a smell very similar to that of rotting flesh, hence the nickname, to attract flies to it so it can pollinate.
This method of using harmless trickery was fascinating and was explored further with the different senses; taste, sight, smell, hearing and touch. Hearing and sound was eventually settled on for the showcase of playful trickery.
Transpose is a special pair of headphones that filters unpleasant or annoying sounds into something the user wants to listen to. This type of sound transmogrify is a way to adapt to survive the everyday noises of a neighbourhood of a city, kids noise, rush hour, construction, and can help cultivate a peace of mind and reduce anxiety in a hectic environment.
It is assumed that being able to have a more pleasant soundscape could bring people and community together. The learnings that came out of this was that playful trickery can be an interesting way to get people to change their behavior in a positive manner, hence the method deployed.
