Overview

Our project centers on the art of capturing, translating, and expressing individuals' love stories and emotions into tangible artefacts. These meaningful creations serve not only as personal keepsakes but also as tools for introspection and sharing with others. Through this endeavor, we aim to breathe life into the beautiful narratives of love and emotions that define our lives.

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Bringing design to life

We are interested in exploring the relationship between story and object. How we translate meaning, emotion and memories into artfacts that carry experience, history and personal identity. By investigating forms of love, the technologies of generative AI, and how we then capture, translate and express these stories, we can create a new language of form and meaning. We want to research across anthropology, technology, art and psychology to get a deeper understanding of what love can mean and how we can use it to generate new rituals and artefacts.

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We are interested in exploring the creative expression of storytelling and by creating objects from this we change our relationship to ourselves. Being able to hold, feel and share these representations goes beyond pure memory. Once we have these artefacts we are able to work in a therapeutic environment to reflect and accept ourselves, as well as relate and find connection to others in new ways. We see them as a way of archiving cultural memories in objects which can be curated, displayed and saved.

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We want to take a platform approach where we are looking at a system that can generate many outcomes, working through a technique to then have many applications. The basic model of capture-translate-express can then be utilisied in different ways, from the poetic: capturing a babies first words, a loved ones dying breath, sharing stories turned into food, or forests grown from words that hold generational memories, to therapuatic experiences that heal.

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Key Insights

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Design

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Prototype

We are thinking about a simple digital process as a proof of idea. Creating a workflow that tests the ability to translate story into outputs and work on the visual language of expression. We intend to take a series of AI models for emotion tracking, monitoring and analysis and connect them to a interface that plugs in generative image models to create and output unique images or 3d models as expression of the story. With the basic workflow connected we can then test with users to explore storytelling, visualisation and object relationships.

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Next Steps

As we have been thinking about this idea as a  platform and how this system can then work to capture and create unique artfefacts, we would seek to take the core model and explore variations of use cases across different contexts. For example how to make this system accessible to deaf, blind or differently abled users. The products or services that could be generated exist both in the digital and physical world and allow for potential crossovers, hybrid experiences and social activities and events that foster storytelling, sharing and understanding around what love means to people and how they express the love that matters.