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Women Safety (NL)

Team

Akarsh Sanghi

Interaction Designer, Developer


Laura Mul

Researcher


Shinichiro Ito

Creative Technologist, Media Producer


Commissioner:

Description

Meeting Brigit Daamen (December 3)

During our search for designers, we stumbled upon Brigit Daamen, who is a felt designer. She was very enthusiastic about meeting us, since she makes a lot of spatial felt designs where our mechanisms would actually fit in.

Why did we actually choose a necklace?

When we arrived we started talking about the concept, which provoked some critiques. Why didn’t we choose for a scarf? Why didn’t we choose for a clip on the bag? How would it work if it is mostly for women on the street when the necklace is actually underneath the coat? We found that we couldn’t answer these questions immediately and there were some serious design challenges coming up. This made us think about brooches or extensions of the aroma part of the necklace that could be clipped on one’s coat.

Interesting designs by Brigit

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During the meeting, Brigit showed some interesting designs of which one can be seen in the picture on the left. The necklace does not close which would make it easier to wear on a coat. Also, the pendants are made of rubber in the inside with felt on the outside. Our technical parts could go in there. Felt could also be created around objects. This is because the felt is made from wool and adding water and soap will create the felt, which means that around the technical parts, felt can be created.

 

Influence of felt making process on our concept

One of the problems that comes up here, is that the technical parts are not water proof, so we have to think of a casing to put around it. Also, if it gets surrounded in Felt, we can not open it up anymore to fix the smell mechanism or change batteries. We could choose to work together with Brigit, but we will also meet AMFI students who are also willing to help us. Eventually one of the designers will be chosen.

 

 

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