The accessories detect sounds and translate them into shape changes, light patterns and vibrations. Wearing the accessories, the deaf persons can perceive sounds through the body. Quietude addresses a number of needs of people with hearing impairment, from functional needs like ambient awareness, to hedonic needs like aesthetics.
Quietude aims at balancing the tension between a functional approach to disability with an ethical and aesthetic exploration of technologies supporting disabilities.
Quietude collection is composed of three necklaces with different behaviours: shape change, dynamic light and vibration.
The suite of accessories is a modular system of interactive jewellery which can be configured in different forms and on-body use. Materials include fabrics, leather, felt and recycled plastic in combination with CAD/CAM, 3D printing, laser cut and engraving.
2018 – 2021
European Union’s Horizon 2020 for Research and Innovation program – Agreement N.732098
Glitch Factory, T4all
In collaboration with University of Southern Denmark and Siena Art Institute
