Welcome to our final exhibition!

How to navigate this exhibition page

What you see below is the exhibition poster, which will give you a general idea of what the project is about. But if you continue scrolling, there is more!

This exhibition page contains different toggles. Each toggle presents a story that approaches our concept from a different perspective. You can read all of them to have a complete overview of our project, but you can also read only the ones that look more interesting to you, and you will still be able to understand!

Poster:

1. Our concept in a nutshell

Kollekt -the collection jacket.

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  Kollekt is a revolutionary concept jacket that allows people to enhance their outdoor experiences and their memories of them. This works in two steps.

  Step 1: Collect your memories inside your pocket and bring them home

  

  Have you ever brought home some nice rocks from your mountain trip, to keep a memory of your incredible experience? The Kollekt jacket has a special pocket where you can store these natural souvenirs. When something is placed into the pocket, the jacket will take 5 seconds to record the sounds around you, and this recording will be linked forever to the object that you collected. During the recording, the jacket will make this collecting experience even more fun by providing visual and haptic feedback!

  Step 2: Listen back to your memories and share them with your loved ones

  

  When you come home after your exciting trip, you probably store these souvenirs that you collected somewhere in your house where they will not get lost or broken. However, once they are removed from their original context, they often lose part of their appeal, as well as their meaning. And when you show them to people, they don?t really communicate those thrilling feelings that you have experienced, right?

  Well, if you collected your objects inside the Kollekt jacket, you will have a pleasant surprise! By placing them on your speaker, a soundscape based on the recording that the jacket took will start playing. This will help you to recall your memories, and will allow you to recreate an atmosphere that can be experienced also by who was not on the trip with you!

2. Target group

Characteristic of our target group, and how they inspired us for this project.

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  Let?s do a small experiment: scroll through the pictures that you find below, and try to understand who is our target group and what is the interaction that inspired our concept. Can you guess?

  (If you want to read the explanation, you?ll find it after the pictures)

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  Our target group and our inspiration is kids: they like to explore nature and collect stuff to bring home, they get very excited when they see rocks with strange shapes or colors, and they often have a great imagination that allow them to create crazy stories from ordinary objects.

  But that?s not all! We don?t want to limit our target only to these little human beings: we believe that there is also a child hidden inside every adult. So if you feel like picking up natural souvenirs and play in nature, this concept is also for you!

3. Creative journey

Our project journey: how our explorations, iterations, and prototypes brought us to our final concept.

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  A short visual presentation of the iteration journey we did from the start of this project. With every new prototype, we discovered new insights and looked at the strong and weak points of our idea. A long iteration process and a lot of useful insights merged into our final concept, which eventually led us to the Kollekt jacket.

4. Use of AI: a bridge between reality and imagination

AI is often seen as something that brings us away from the ?real? world. In this project, AI helps us to get closer to our physical experiences.

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  If you try to google ?AI? and ?Experience nature?, the pictures that appear seem totally incompatible. How can we design something to connect these two words, that appear so distant from each other?

  

  Our concept aims to integrate AI into clothes to make the outdoor experience even more real. In fact, the Kollekt jacket recognizes when its special pocket for collection has been empty for a long time, and sends small reminders in the form of vibrations to express its need to be ?fed? with memories. This reminder encourages people to actively notice the natural objects that surround them. Moreover, since the jacket records the sounds that are present in the environment, it makes people think about those sounds and therefore listen more carefully to the nature that surrounds them.

5. Future implication: creating a deeper connection with your clothes

The aim of our concept goes beyond triggering temporary emotions. We envision that our project could open the doors for creating a new meaning and value for the clothes we wear.

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  The Kollekt jacket is more than just a practical piece of clothing that keeps you warm, it is a jacket that stimulates you to go outside and have new experiences. Not only will your memories be linked to the objects but also to the jacket which enables the collection. This connection to your jacket will make you more conscious of the way you use it and will also make people take more care of it. The interactive technology embedded in the jacket will create a more customisable and personal experience enhancing this connection.