"5 TOOLS FOR DIGITAL DETOX"

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"5TFDD" seeks for reflection on the only addiction that has been socially accepted, the digital. In response, 5 objects and phases have been designed to boost and promote digital detox. Each phase creates a new scenario that rethinks our relationship with technology. The goal is to create a series of objects that invite us to reflect, reconsider and build, through critical design, a digitally responsible society.

PHASE 1 - 102 PROCESSING: 100.000 WORDS A DAY

The first phase is an editorial piece that allows you to retrieve the ability to process complex information and reach deeper levels of understanding. Through visual content known by the user, a complex text has been “camouflaged” in order to create a linear reading. In this way, the user will visually see the same as always, but mentally will be processing complex information.

"5 TOOLS FOR DIGITAL DETOX"

PHASE 2 - 204 NO CONTENT: COULDN'T REFRESH FEED

The second phase is a new Instagram concept, the only existing profile that will help you to detoxify from this platform. It provides blurred images portrayed in the same way as when we do not have Internet connection and they cannot be downloaded. The main objective is to disturb and bombard people through non-downloaded visual material in order to annoy the user to close the social network and stop using the mobile. The stereoscopic viewer is key for this tool as it aims to make the user focus totally on the images which gives incentives to loathe Instagram.

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PHASE 3 - 308 REDIRECTED: NOMOPHOBIA THERAPY

In order to combat Nomophobia (non-mobile-phone-phobia), a new substitute phone is created and administered as a therapy, it has no real healing value, except for the psychological placebo effect. The piece is not intended to be a simple analogue replacement of the mobile phone, for this reason it is made of a thermochromic material that causes a change on its colour activated by the heat of our hands. In this way, the user sees reflected the time mobile phone is on their hands.

PHASE 4 - 423 LOCKED: BATTERY DISCHARGER

The fourth object is a device that accelerates the discharge of the battery of the mobile, in reverse of a standard charger. This device allows you to unload the battery of the mobile until it “dies” and aims to create and become part of a new ritual where the process takes on great importance. This ritual is about seeing how the percentage of the battery lowers until mobile phone turns off.

PHASE 5 - 404 NOT FOUND: DIGITAL DETOX REFUGE

The last object represents the idea of total digital absence as it is literally an anti-technology shield. It is a portable digital detox refuge that covers the entire body and that blocks and inhibits the signals that emit the devices. For the user, it represents being in a new comfort zone where it cannot be intoxicated in any way and where it becomes technologically invisible. It is about achieving a pure digital “silence”.