Mark Wilken Highest Achievement Award and award for Best Model
- Monash University
tillhöra
social research | UI design | textiles | woodwork
a sensory rug that creates AI generated atmospheres
through interpretations of users photographs
“International humanitarian interventions rarely target youth...perhaps the most underserved amongst the displaced”
Integrating artificial intelligence, social media, and sensory qualities, the rug is designed to help youth settle into unfamiliar places. The embedded AI of the app interprets photographs and instructs the rug to emit sound, vibrations, and light that emulate the photograph’s atmosphere allowing the user to transcend the barrier of place and experience a feeling of ‘home’.
These experiences can be shared via the app’s social media platform to allow young people to share their journeys of displacement and belonging. As an industrial designer driven by a curiosity for humanitarian design, research, and sustainability, the construction of Tillhöra considers the social circumstances of migrant communities and textile waste to support displaced migrant youth to assimilate into new environments.