Social_accessories

Unlocking participatory potential of products

Unlocking product’s social skills by designing social interaction scripts and idioms emerging directly from an object. 

Social accessories are a category of products intentionally designed/equipped with behavioral scripts that invite collaborative encounters and inspire social values and relations emerging directly from an object. 

Values like:

• sense of connection to others

• sense of place and belonging

• being in the now

• civility, and transient collaboration

• ability to share benevolent energy

• ability to improvise/openness to a situation

Our design investigate how objects can act as disarming instigators of embodied social values and relationships.

Through revealing benevolent interdepend relations and engaging us directly with people and world around, social accessories mobilize our innate pro-social disposition. Taking the first step, nudging us into unexpected encounters, these objects create openings to inspire moments of shared understanding, recognizable participatory patterns, behavioral scripts, and energies.

By adding layer of novel behavioral script, social accessories intrigue people with hidden talents of our everyday products and situations. Socially integrated products and services are extending the circle of our relations and opening the door for collaborative encounters, they help to make every day human experiences more meaningful.

Objects with social presence, open for participation in relations and experience beyond isolated tasks.

The goal is about Creating “meaningful experience”* by unlocking the social potential of products.

*interaction that resonates immediately yet continue to inform later, inviting moments of reflection and emotional awareness ‘makes us realize what we feel’.

There is always a surplus of social possibility to any situation and object that is not reveled by current interaction patterns. Surplus of social possibility is about unlocking potential for new relations.

Our objective is about unlocking product’s participatory potential by designing behavioral scripts and idioms emerging directly from an object. 

Our approach sees product experience beyond isolated tasks, inviting a richer relation with intentions and context, into sites and situations of everyday life.

These phatic behavioral scripts offer a participatory layer to be discovered through product use, while core functionality of the object remains intact.

Layers of integration with product:

Expanding the way how people can participate in experience through unlocking product’s potential for inviting novel experiential narratives emerging directly through product use in everyday context.

• Novel behavioral scripts

• Soft form factor intervention

• Original companion objects