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Dissolving distances: Designing close-to-body experiences for remote settings (2023)

Nesli Hazal Oktay
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I aim to offer embodied intimacy for people who are close by heart but physically apart. Specifically, I explore designing close-to-body experiences at a distance through intimate bio-rings, rings made of natural ingredients. Intimate bio-rings are highly customizable, can be biodegraded, and start dissolving when exposed to humidity e.g.: rain, sweat etc. The idea of creating a non-lasting object to be worn on the body—that required care, that was ambiguous and tangible—was a result of a prior user study of cultural probing and embodied design ideation. I further experimented with intimate bio-rings by making the ring and wearing it in everyday life together with my father, whom I live far away from. In this paper, I showcase a user study with 3 pairs (6 participants) that made intimate bio-rings at their homes while self-reported and self-documented their personal experiences. They then further shared their meaning-makings with me through an interview. Overall, participants found intimate bio-rings to be supporting new understandings about intimacy at a distance. As a result, their experience of "distance" alters slightly or changes completely by i) embarking on a journey, ii) creating time and space to be together, and iii) carrying each other through a tangible object.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdistances, intimacy, embodied design, user study
date31/08/2023
published21/12/2023
last modified21/12/2023
statuspublished
affiliationEstonian Academy of Arts
copyrightNesli Hazal Oktay
licenseCC BY-NC-SA
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2272473/2272474
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2272473
published inHUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue1. HUB Issue #1 / Autumn 2023 / Distance


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