Michael Bonnick
Communicating through the InanimateProvoking conversation and social interaction through dialogically subversive new product forms designed for the home environment
For centuries human beings have surrounded themselves with inanimate objects to enrich their daily lives. Objects have become very important signs with much power over human beings. Objects respond to a need for communication among people…” (Vihma, 1992). Such objects become the artefacts of our past, present and future. They tell tales of their owner’s metaphorical museum and grant entrance into this private sanctuary – the home environment.
But how can such objects trigger intrigue, create a magnetic pull and generate a Pandora’s box experience? Personal ethnographic research to date around the subject of the conversation piece has exposed individuals as having a natural inclination to assign commemorative attributes to inanimate objects.
Individuals need to socially redefine themselves through the objects they collect. There is the need to engage with objects that promote well being for the user through play on physical, spiritual, conceptual and intellectual levels. By assigning commemorative properties to objects there is the growing need for time capsules products’ capable of storing significant memories and personal effects of the user.
Individuals require time capsules – keepsakes that strengthen their relationship with the past, present and future. My research and design intervention provide examples, as well as the hypotheses that supports the existing cross-fertilization between Fine Art and modern industrial design, enabling me to demonstrate that objects are becoming increasingly more dialogical through art, design and poetry.
The ‘Drawer that Never Closes’, is the antithesis of my creative direction; exploring dialogical images and objects, able to stimulate discussion and provoke social interaction on physical, intellectual and conceptual planes. Art and design are music expressed in the round. Rhythm and poetry fused in a symphony of composition.”
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Michael Bonnick
mbonnick@gmail.com
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