In this project, a group of Master students and I explored how to design for ‘digital obesity in real-life social settings’ from a Showroom approach [1]. Through a provocative intervention, we gained insights on how to elicit a discourse on and a decrease in the use of social media in a student bar setting. The insights gained from two earlier inventions, focussing on an act of greed and charity, functioned as input for the setting, content, and designs of the final intervention.
A collaborative statement was formed based on the visions of all 7 authors: “You can multiply your time by spending it together”. Modern society is drawing towards personal time, time is money and the digital age that draws our attention downwards (and into our phones).
In order to elicit a debate, a package for phones was designed with a clear and immediate relation with cigarettes package. The main goal was to provoke a reaction through critical design, debate the topic of digital obesity and the level of greed in personal phone usage in a social setting.
