/phase 2 project

move//ment is a project that aims to bring awareness back to all of those instinctual and subconscious movements that we do throughout the day.

From the head, the neck, the torso, the arms and the legs we spend countless hours each day in endless loops of movement that gets barely registered thanks to the well oiled mechanisms that is our psyche.

Proprioception is the so-called sixth sense that allows us to move without us necessarily outputting a command or being aware that we’re requesting our body to move.

I found the understatedness of this phenomenon fascinating and so I decided to work on my project to create a set of weighted accessories that help us notice these movements and bring another layer of awareness to our days.

/the final models

The final project includes a set of four accessories that can be worn both over and under the clothes.

The chain is barbarised stainless steel. Two of the elements, the arm and the leg one, have a hook that allows the user to adjust the size of the chain in order to fit correctly.

Whereas the ear piece and the necklace are standard pieces made to fit most bodies.

The characteristic of the pieces is the weight that brings all of them in common. Heavy enough to be felt on the body but light in order not to bring too much annoyance to the user.

The blue pendants hide in the resin body a lead weight of 60gr for the necklace and the leg piece. Whereas the ear piece has a cut steel bar on the inside of ca. 20gr.

Both of the types of pendant are thought so that the user would feel enough pressure when their body is moving, in this way we get the desired result of a heightened awareness of their subtle everyday movements.

During my research for the mid-term presentation about proprioception I came to realize how only recent are all the studies that regard this interesting and difficult topic.

The tools used today to rehabilitate people who have suffered damages to their sense are very much the same we use to rehabilitate physical conditions, however the underlying condition is completely different.

This set does not want to subsitute to medical devices, as it was merely a scratch to the surface of our own psyche in combination to the control of our body. It was with interest to bring the topic to the vast majority of the people that these tools were realized.

For that reason I believe these to be accessories just as much as devices that could spark a thought or a debate on the topic, and I would consider myself satisfied even if this would be the only result.