Flyte - I challenge you to play differently.
Flyte is a gaming interface which provides a source of motivation and challenge in rehabilitative therapy for persons with hemiplegia.
If you’ve ever had to undergo physical rehabilitation after an accident you know how hard it is to keep engaged with your therapy program. Therapy exercises are extremely tedious and repetitive. Even more so for a person with hemiplegia, who can only move one side of their body. They spend a great...
"Billig" the DIY Desk Lamp
Made out of a single piece of cardboard that folds up into your pocket Billig allows you to transform a bike light into a simple desktop lamp. The simple instructions are made available online for anyone to use. Billig which is Swedish for "cheap" is a play on the IKEA sterotype of furniture.
Personal Projections - Interactive Installation.
The Personal Projections project intends to explore the creation and realization of personal identity, and the disconnect between a person's understanding of their own identity and their actual perceived identity by others. The installation aims to arouse questions from the audience pertaining to their own personal identity, who they are, what makes them unique, and what they know about themselves.
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The Vinly Experience (The Waldorf Project)
This project was synchronous with the re-launch of the historic Waldorf hotel. The design objective was to document the hotel’s long history and renowned Tiki Bar and showcase it to visitors old and new. The Vinyl Experience is an archive that showcases the hotel’s memories in the form of old pictures, event posters and videos. This took the shape of LP record reminiscent of the hotel’s continued analog style. Users interfaced with the...
PROJECT TEAM
Justin Hay, Theunis Snyman, Laura Kozak, Alexandra Mitchell, and Joshua Welsh
The goal of the Long Table Series is to connect the high-level, policy-based Greenest City Goals with real people and actions for implementing the Goals. For example, when the Greenest City Goals state the objective to “reduce per capita water consumption by 33%,” the Long Table Series brought a group of people together, provided a process by which one could obtain...
The Venerable Lift - A hand-powered wheelchair lift for vertical access in a two storey house.
Frequently in old age, frailty and infirmity set in, limbs ache and joints become stiff, Movements from room to room become onerous. Journeys from floor to floor become insurmountable trials of will. Typically, vertical circulation for the elderly is cold and impersonal, often serving as an unpleasant visual reminder of weekness, take for example wheelchair lifts or pneumatic...
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