Seve

Our project was born in a particular context, that of COVID-19, this situation has led to a lack of social and physical ties and creates emotional isolation. During this period, in large cities, many people are forced to stay alone at home in apartment buildings and suffer more and more each day from isolation. In a chaotic situation like this, mutual help becomes essential, but it is hampered by the prohibition of physical contact.

Project realized by

Ugo Rorato, Alix Gora, Chloé Vandroux, Lenny Luc Rafaï, Laetitia Servais, Nicolas de Beauffort

The project

To face this need for social interaction, we would like to put the inhabitants of the same apartment building in touch with each other. Thank that they can interact and help each other in the longterm.

To do this, we designed a very compact mini projector that we called Seve. This one is equipped with a touch screen to be adaptable to the most different surfaces. This projector will be able to display a menu in which it is possible to choose between different interactions: to have social interactions, to offer or request services, to have an anonymous chat, or even to use it as a screen for other needs such as work. To make these interactions visible, the projector will, when no interactions are in progress, display a projection of a tree illustrating the evolution of social relationships between people in the same building.

The more there are mutual help and interaction, the more the tree projection will evolve, and this simultaneously for all the inhabitants.

Solving this problem of isolation by strengthening the ties between neighbors over the long term while avoiding most physical contact due to mandatory quarantine is the objective of Seve.

Our team had to experiment, create and manipulate shapes to get to another perspective on the project dealing between social human need/care and security dimensions.

Scanned with CamScanner

Creative process

The idea was to approach the object from each side so that each point of view is free of parasitic constraints. Step by step, we founded tools and possibilities who could be applied easily during the quarantine period. Together we had to discuss, adjust, correct, observe all by distance. It was interesting for us to work and deal with the quarantine situation. Taking directions, choices by video communication had a strong impact on the final result.

Our vision

One of the major problems caused by confinement is the lack of social interaction. The objective of SEVE is to solve the issue due to the insolation by strengthening the ties between neighbors while avoiding physical contact due to mandatory quarantine.

But the aim of SEVE goes beyond the quarantine, it is also useful for people in retirement homes, or elderly people who live alone and need help. SEVE was not only designed for the quarantine but for enforcing relations between neighbors in everyday life. 33