Portfolio Riku Arai
Musashino Art University
IMPRINTING IN GENDER ISSUES Graduation Work in Musashio Art University 2014.
Class
This is the survey of imprinted images of homosexuality in Japan.
Now, gay people are said to be one in ten in Japan. However, most people in Japan do not believe that homosexuality exist in our society, and then the Japan’s posture of it is not very clear. It’s neither acceptable to gay, nor refuse it. Why? How do people recognize homosexuality? And what is the cause of producing the stereotype of it? This survey aims to reveal the process and system in Japan.
Process
The process of work ・Create some questionnaire
・Collect datas
・Research for psychological, society, sexology
・Summarize to write a repot
Planning some workshops, activities
・Review
Research: questionnaire Which one do you think “looks gay” ?
One of questionnairs
● ... The number of valid response
Scarf /23
Watch /0
Earrings /38
Boots /3
Glasses /５
Deck shoes /7
Total participants ... 59 people
Beamaking New communication in 2050.
Concept
Beamaking Beam + Making
This work is a interactive tool which is supposed for new communication style in 2050. The title of “Beamaking” has two meanings that “Beam” and “Making one something”. The shape of design is very similar to contact lenses as a product, however, it effects to relationship between gay people by using the beam of it. I would like gay people to feel easy through this new system when they fall in love
The term of work Process
the first week ・Collect ideas ・Research for psychological (system of human’s eye)
the second week ・Plan how create, what is required
the third week ・Take the video of use cases
the last week ・Review
・Make panels to explaine
1 month
System of the machine Wearable interaction machine which has the type of contact lenses.
The lense as a screen analyzes the eye moving to create databases. When peopel see the person who you are interested in, your pupil is getting small to watch the person clearly. After that users can find out whether the person is interested in them or not in any way.
Outside of the lense as kind of display for the informations. When the lense gets some stimulations or sense the user’s moving of pupil, heart beating, it flashes to make user’s own body secrete dopamine. The center of lense is the section to analyze the user’s eye moving, contraction of the pupil. After that it creates and maintains database.
The effect of Dopamine The ideas and essential elements from pshychologic perspective.
Dopamine is secreted in brain by flashing constantly.
Dopamine is secreted from body when the eyes got stimulation of
This makes people have a appetite, sexual desire, being in the mood.
flashing. In a situation that the person who is your favorite is standing in front of you, then you are worked up.
Use case video The use case video of “Beamaking” It focuses on a first step in gay people’s relationship.
For using, it’s required to put force into the lenses,
After that, the lenses give strong light like flash of a
Dopamine is began to produce in a brain, then the
e.g. blinking, rubbing eyes for flashing.
camera. The light promote dopamine in a brain.
person gets excited. The situation is similar to a state of falling in love.
Gifum Box New Value of Hexahedron in Interactive Innovation (class name) Group work
Class
Interactive Innovation Introduction of the class
Interactive Innovation 2014 gives students a theme to find their values from Sphere, Tetrahedron, and Hexahedron and then create a new value of those each by expanding a workshop in this semester hold by Rob Thompson from central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London.
Proposal
Gifum Box Gift + Album
The concept of our idea is to make people believe that things which people usually treat as garbage might be something special. We began by thinking about new value of hexahedron. Throughout the process of researching hexahedron, we found “Packing� is one of the features of this object. For a sender, packing is the action to put an object expressing his/her heart, as well as for a reciever would have some fun when he/she imagine what is inside.
System and Use case Gift + Album = Gifum Box !
As a present box !
This our idea, “Gifum Box”, has two functions of a gift
When you give a present with “Gifum Box” to your
box and a photo album.
precious, the person will be surprised !
Create your one and only !
It will be memorable.
You can create your favorite album with your lovely
The own stracture and album style make itself keep
photo on surfaces of this product !
forever. It won’t be garbage.
Unexpected TEA - by your side Tea Time Experience in Tokyo
Concept
We naturally have family, friend, lover even though we can't normally be with them every time. Occasionally, We just can't refuse feeling lonely. But "Unexpected information" can make you heartwarming and relieve the loneliness. My designed system, "Unexpected TEA" is able to help you with tea. Tea is a good way to care about people. Because there is a rich variety for health and mental. So thoughtful a cup of tea which is chosen by your precious let you feel like the people by your side. Also, you might think about your precious while you enjoy the tea from the one. Having a tea mostly means sharing time with some people to communicate. However people's lifestyle in Tokyo have turned from it to spending by oneself now. Of course, although there is some benefits, cannot feel the warm like being together.
Proposal
“Unexpected TEA� is a new SNS through tea as a present. This system based on my real experience. I suddenly got a message from my friend when I had been sick. The message was written that "I have a tea to be good for health. This is a present for you!" I was really happy and thankful while I was having the tea. And I could feel the friend by my side. The unexpected present of tea reacts the tea time which I enjoyed and took my loneliness away. In conclusion, I think this system can relieve people's loneliness with "Tea time" and "Unexpected information"
System and Design 1
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You recieve a messeage by
The sender can choose tea by SNS
The sender has to fill in this online
Order the tea that is sent
surprise.
system. There are various kinds of tea.
form to send a message with tea.
from the sender to you.
You can also check details of them.
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Plans of design
You can have the tea that the sender chose at tea shop.
The sender’s name is written on
The photo you chose printed out
the side of cup.
on a coaster.
Advertisement on a tea bag.
WakeOuch!! Interaction Seminar 2012 Group work
Concept
WakeOuch!! Wake + Ouch
This is a new interaction machine in future. The name is mixed up with “Wake” and “Ouch” . “Wake ” came from “分ける (Wakeru)” in Japanese. That means “Sharing something” so the meaning is “Share pains” . It helps to share a pain between people. This idea came from our actual experience, also we guess lots of people have thought that they want to share some pains to show how much it hurts. Therefore we provide futuristic design “WakeOuch!!” that aims to share a thing that impossible to do it before.
The machine is type of a wristband. You can wrap it around your wirst easily like a watch!
System and Use case 1
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When humans feel a pain at a part of body,
At the time, the signal also goes to
After “Wakeouch!!” recorded a pain, if you shake
the pain develops to a signal in a brain. After
“Wakeouch!!” And “Wakeouch!!” records the
hands whose a person wearing “Wakeouch!!” .
that the signal goes to their bodies.
pain.
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The signal goes back to a brain from the another
And “Wakeouch” helps to share the same pain
“Wakeouch”
between two persons.
Memory Bank
Service Design Basics -Note Keeping-
Workshop by Prof. Birgit Mager from Köln International School of Design. Group work
Concept
The theme of this work
Think about what taking note means. Create a new service design which aims to “Note Keeping”
Memory bank
We defined “Note Keeping” as not just writting someting on a note but recording. Then we focused on growth ruler because parents mark their child’s height at a pillar of house for growth ruler, however there are some difficulties to keep it for a long time. It might be lost by accompanying by other significant changes in the child’s life, such as a death, divorce, loss of family income, or a need to change schools. Therefore our group proposed “Memory Bank” ,new system in future generation to save any memories. ◀That plan to provide is online based. People have each accounts to save their own belongs as same as regular bank. That system is simlar to combining internet bank with lental wearhousing.
System ▼System overview
PRESERVE MEMORIES
RECORD MEMORIES KEEP THEIR MEMORIES
COLLECT MEMORIES
ORGANIZE MEMORIES
The Memory Bank records memories, organize memories, preserve memories, and create a history archive of the family.
TREASURE THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY MAKE ALL THE MEMBERS UNITE
1→
2 →
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Open an account and choose what you are going to
When you need to use the items or collections
Log into your account and simply see and organize
save in the bank and the way you want to save it:
of your memory, just ask the Memory Bank to
the items you saved using Tags.
upload through Internet, Application, home delivery
deliver them for you. You could request from
If you can’ t use Internet, you could also ask to the
service, or at nearest Memory Bank.
Internet, Application, call the bank, or go to
Memory Bank ‘s operators to see and organize the
the nearest one.
object with their help.
The third sex Photographs from group exhibition “glitter”
Class
“glitter” is the word which means something is shining, blinging. I grasped that energy from human is also one of the “glitter” and I showed attraction of unisex in photographs.
The aim of this work is to ask people that how do you figure out gender when you see the unisex things.
Size：3168 × 4752
Size：4752 × 3168
Size：4752 × 3168
Daddy I’m here Concept
What do people think about gender when they see a male pregnat. Actually It’s impossible to have a baby for male.
But if male were able to have a baby thire own body, what happens to “Gender” ? I tried to ask the questions that “what” is gender?” “what is characteristic of gender” through these photographs.
Photographs from exhibition “DICC” by department of design informatics, Musashino Art University
Size：3168 × 4752