By: Zoé Martial
Keywords: Reminiscing, Mourning, Elderly, Women, Process
Tutors: Gert Pasman & Margreet Beets
Design Goal and Interaction vision
Design Goal:I want to make independently living lonely elderly women experience dinner time as if they are having dinner with a loved one while actually being alone.
Interaction Vision:I want to give lonely elderly women a joyful feeling such as the sensation one feels. “When the first sun rays tickle your skin in the February sun after a long cold winter.”
The Mourning Process
This mourning process consists of a mug with a pattern to crochet a sleeve. A widowed elderly woman will be able to process the loss of a lifelong partner with this mourning process. The elderly receives the mug and a crochet pattern of the sleeve. A cardigan or a scarf of the deceased will be used to make the mug sleeve. This would be literally a mourning process, during which yarn of the deceased will be processed or verwerken. The yarn still smells like the deceased and this might evoke memories but help the mourning process. When the sleeve is finished, it is wrapped around the mug and when holding it, it will feel as if holding a hand. Image 1 shows my Hand-Mug on its own, and image 2 shows the Hand-Mug held by someone.
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