Instead of “How can we help to improve people’s sleep with the aid of technology?” DU:SK focuses on what people do to affect their sleep. Moreover, currently, most of the apps that deal with sleeping issues are activated right before bed.
DU:SK explores a solution for users to experience more effortless and restful sleep habits through a sensorial sleep app and kit. It faces the bearing issue of city life young adults who encounter high anxiety and stress levels, resulting in restless nights. DU:SK engages the five senses before bed whilst incorporating a guided routine throughout the evening to help prepare for the night.
Science has proven that meeting the five senses can enhance one’s experience. Hence, this approach will heighten sleep quality and trigger a slow-down effect on the individual’s brainwave activity to help relax and reduce anxiety, making it easier for the user to fall asleep.
Codex Golden looks at the Golden Mile Complex. A building whose value has been questioned and contested through the decades,
it is now deemed rather irrelevant towards urbanisation and development. Yet to me, it is a place of significance where family ties, friendships and relationships are forged.
Places can be seen as specific sites that hold our experiences. It holds a unique moment where the mind, the body, and the world are aligned. They make sense out of each other and create a permanent impression in our lives. Places morph, extend and diminish. Each time we revisit them, it has the ability to build upon newer experiences or make greater meaning out of the older ones. They do so according to the people that you are with, the stage that you are in life and the situations that the universe chooses to put you in. Hence, it is a chanced occurrence yet highly specific and intentional. Each experience in a place is not replicable. They build upon each other and are a way of understanding life.
Codex Golden is a site-specific project which is essentially a collection of experiences put together by me trying to answer the following questions: What does a ‘Place’ mean? How do we deem if it is ‘Of value’? More importantly, how do we make sense out of these ‘Places’? This is performed through the act of Walking— a common thread that holds all experiences together.
