Object Proposal

Figure 14 Lego Shrine

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Object Proposal

I will be making an at home kit to construct a charging shrine for your phone. While functional in nature as it will provide a protective stand for the phone while charging this will pull elements from at home shrines and is designed to be customisable.

The kit is a loose how to with instructions on how to build the intended structure, however participants will be provided with clay, wire, plastic sockets and are encouraged to manipulate the final design to whatever strikes a chord with them.

With the intended design being simple the plastic sockets allow for photos or thin objects to be played within them and interchanged whenever the user would like. Wire can also be added so other forms can be attached.

Lego Shrine, by Bifuteki, 2011, (https://www.bifuteki.com/2011/06/things-were-diggin-lego-brick-case-for-iphone-4/)

A physical kit will be made, with the set of instructions and an example (or multiple) of what the final product could look like.

This object aims to capture aspects from shrines past and present. The intended structure is similar to some of the first altars in the religious communities while the user controlled windows is a physical representation of the social media (particularly Instagram) that many have identify and use as an online shrine.

This ‘phone shrine’ will allow users to display photos and items that are important to them and would possibly be otherwise be overlooked in an area (phone charger) that they will now use everyday. This will encourage the consumer to look back on the memories related to the photos and objects chosen to be displayed. This object is also aimed to try and remove the negative stigma that society has created around worshiping technology by displaying it in the protective shrine.

Lego Shrine, by Bifuteki, 2011, (https://www.bifuteki.com/2011/06/things-were-diggin-lego-brick-case-for-iphone-4/)