Your Balance (2012)

Barbro Scholz, Germany

Description

What could be the role of textile user interfaces in the digital age?

Your Balance is an interactive, textile jewelry with the inspiration taken from insects. It is a critical design project that deals with the control through the 24/7 availability and the expectation of efficient time-use we live with today. It questions our passive acceptance of applications of control in our daily life and asks what we want textile user interfaces to be.  The three textile sensors monitor the movements of the employee to a system, watched by the employer to control the employee’s life balance.  Communication between employer and employee becomes closer, the amount of work and responsibilities can be adjusted according to the data and long-term efficiency is provided. Are we like worker-bees, working efficiently towards the center of the hive?

Medium

Bobbin-Lace of Monofilament, Silver-Thread, and Bekinox-Thread; Magnets

Techniques

Traditional Bobbin-Lace

Images credits

Barbro Scholz