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Limited Life

Objects around us and even our own situations are limited. Technology can have inbuilt obsolescence, a predetermined timeframe in which the object will either no longer complete its function or will be superseded by a another. Trends and fashion can also affect the life we place on an object as their aesthetics become less appealing in time. Our own state of living is also limited, by social, economic and environmental factors and we can be restrained, confined or restricted in a multitude of ways.

Currently it seems that this limited life is having an impact on the environment and causing us to question the benefits and downfalls of this route we are heading down. One area being examined is that of waste, have to reduce it, during manufacture and transport and how to prevent this limited life restraining an objects worth. In this area I would like to focus on the extension of life and function through exploring emotion attachment, object-user rewards to improve life extension. The idea of stimulated function - that something can change or become useful according to how the user interacts with it and treats it.

Another area of the Limited Life theme that would be explored is that of how our personal lives can be emotionally limited. Looking into where there are voids of stimulation in modern living, namely the numbness that can creep into an overstimulated population when some basic experiences are removed from our routines. Namely this area of research will look into the void of contact in relation to both emotional and physical contact of an intimate relationship and our basic needs such as food/eating.