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title> ADAPTED TRANSFORMATION, MOBILITY BETWEEN BODY AND PRODUCTS
author> Lieke Snellen

People make product and they change products to adapt to their living habits. But we as a human beings also have to change to let these products become a part of our lives. these are visible and invisible movements. A vicious circle, in which you could ask your selve what changes what at the end. The products and the body keep each other alive.

If you think about the development of capsules, the way that public spaces become more and more like capsules. Places with their own environment, their own borders, visible and invisible, like malls, airports, even countries and the first world as a whole. Then you could also see it on a more eternal level. Houses also become more and more like capsules. People trying to make there own living spaces more and more installed with better security systems. And they don't need to go outside because of communications like the Internet and telephone. You could stay in the whole day; work in the house and order food. Then you notice that even houses get theire own environment, own borders. What will happen then with the people inside the houses? Do they also become their own capsules? Do people become more a capsule by them selves? Do they create there own borders by communicating only by telephone and Internet. Does the fear create their borders?

If I start with thinking about people as capsules, how does their mobility come into?

If you talk about houses and what is inside, and what is generic between these houses. Than you could say that some of the things people have inside, like chairs, cupboards and beds, make every house generic. Everyone has those products. If I could make it even more generic than I could say that the furniture in the houses is generic also the look of it. Apart from the furniture with some emotion, everyone has something really cheap and with the same look doesn't have any emotion at all. These products become the generic part of the capsule houses. And these generic products have for a great part a big influence on our mobility and the places we move. Because we don't move in places were the products are standing.

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Human beings like to extend them selves. Not only in their living environment, but also their bodies to make live easier. Like looking at evolution, walking up straight and using the telephone (where you have to adapt your movement to use it). Becoming more independent. To become more of a capsule. How can those products give our bodies an extra function so we don't need the generic products in the houses anymore? So we can extend the borders of our own bodyies. What will happen if these generic products become an extension of humans? If you walk around with this products. It uses the mobility function that the body already has and which you need to go to the other capsules. How must the product than adapt to the person whoes extension it becomes. Does the person adapt in their movement, does the product adapt to make the mobility of the person easier. Something generic becomes something personal. Or does the person as a capsule become a more generic person?

What will happen if those products become human extensions? The environment has to adapt to the human, instead of the other way around. Like for example, doors have to get bigger because the capsule body is bigger in a physical and mental way. Also the economy has to change because the products become more personal. they have to fit.

To research this transformation of the product becoming an extension of the human body and its influence on the mobility of the human. I have to try out different possibilities as to the product becomes an extension. How the product gives us an adapted movement. How the product could change to make the mobility easier and what kind of influence this could have on the environment around us.

Criteria that I setup to select the products that I want to use in the mobility tests:

- The product has to have a direct relation to the human body, through which the product and the body creates a new function or keeps its old function.
- The product has to have a certain place in our living surrounding. A product that you can't move with you that easily.
- A product that almost everyone owns in the first world
- The product has to have something generic, through which you get in one case the individual human and in the other hand the mass product.

Questions I ask my self in this project are:

- How do people behave to products?

- Do you already see adaptations of the human body because of the use of products?

- Are their similarities between the mobility in my experiments with the human body in generic, and their mobility?

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