How can my interior design project be emotionally durable?
A bag that has been passed down, or you would like to keep your whole life and then pass down, due to the quality of the material or designer is emotionally durable. But I'm not designing a product.
I understand how it could be an emotional experience, as my project is based in Greenwich around the royal naval college focusing on the role of the sailors whilst they were away- taking into focus past experiences, war, loss and gaining power.
The materials could be durable. Possibly looking at materials around the site itself that have survived until now. Stone, concrete, metal. Or research the types of metal, concrete and timber used on the boats. Then people could make a connection between the materiality and the meaning.
Would this then make it emotionally durable?
Would when the time comes to take my installation down, someone want to take it home with them?
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So, how is this emotionally durable?
By stopping you from throwing things away and providing a simple solution to your breakage you have more ownership over the product, you feel more of an attachment to it as you have put your mark upon it.
So in relation to my project, when people have more ownership over something they wish to treasure it more than something mass produced. My project is already very interactive, looking into large lenses to understand the history of the site, and the people that used to live around it. Every person that looks through the lenses will look through the lenses in different ways. They take ownership over my project when it is displayed. Maybe like Sugru, my project needs a way for the viewers to comment, to give them a voice.
Bibliography
Atto Partners. (2014). The Future Needs Fixing. Available: http://sugru.com/. Last accessed 9th Jan 2014.
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