Freeing Focus
Vacuum Tube Analogue Amplifier
2084 Narrative
The current context of 2084 sees the onslaught of continuous digital stimulus driven by the monopolistic race for engagement.
The actions fuelled by the personalisation algorithms of Artificial Intelligence led to chronic addiction. This results in the manipulation of reality and erodes temporal awareness, impacting on mental health.
The world’s focus epidemic has hit an alltime high. Technological powerhouses are exploiting human nature through microhabit manipulation and the barrage of cheap dopamine.
A group seek to break free from this onslaught, on a mission to regain focus and revitalise presence. Their derive of rebellion leads them to exploring the grounds of Roche Abbey. Nestled within the ruins, the relic of a Vacuum Tube Amplifier is found, immediately captivating the group.
Spatial Concept
Freeing Focus is a proposal that acts as a vessel to resist the onslaught of continuous digital stimulus.
Embedded within the ruins, the site acts as a catalyst for a humancentric future, utilising methods of natural stimulus to provoke moments of emotion.
The mission to re-engage focus and revitalise presence centres around the ritualistic practice of contrast therapy. Its cyclical process of hot and cold exposure shocks the nervous system and centres the mind.
Spaces for collective celebration and storage of the relic, utilise its amber glow to disperse a calming atmosphere.
A dynamic range of interconnected spaces and points of distortion seamlessly guide transition and heighten focus. Specific details are amplified to promote engagement and create breaks within the emotive journey.
