Broken Phone ...we’ll meet in objects
A project by Benedita Menezes in collaboration with Pedro Gil Farias
[december - now]
Touch is the basis of human engagement. In a time where touching has become dangerous and therefore something that we all should avoid, we are favoring platonic and digital interactions instead. But how can we rescue the physical connection between people without risking our lives?
In a poetic way, this project will try to bring people together through touching the same objects and thinking about them, without them ever meeting. The individual ideas and thoughts that come to the surface through interacting with these objects will, once gathered, take shape as a group conversation with the object as a mediator. We will know each other better, create meaning beyond perception and erase the recently imposed digital gap by materializing human interaction.
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Pedro Gil Farias (1996, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Rotterdam based design researcher with a focus on speculation and criticality through design. He holds a BA in Equipment Design from the Fine-Arts School University of Lisbon (FBA-UL), Portugal, and a Msc in Strategic Product Design from the Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), Netherlands.
Pedro’s work explores design as a problem-setting practice, in contrast with the modern-solutionist view on design, and as a strategic medium for critical inquiry and research. Pedro has worked as a strategic designer intern with Rotterdam-based digital agency IN10 and collaborated with other organisations to develop future-oriented strategies and visions. Recently, his work in academic research exploring the convergence of participatory and speculative design has resulted in a published article. He is now working as a freelance and independent design researcher with several self-initiated projects such as ‘(de)conceptualise’, ‘Thing-centered City Making’ , and more recently, a collaboration with design researcher Hugo Pilate, that resulted in a participatory workshop with multiple participants with the goal of exploring an alternative narrative for ‘Black Friday’.
pedrogilfarias.com
All project visuals © Pedro Gil
Pedro’s work explores design as a problem-setting practice, in contrast with the modern-solutionist view on design, and as a strategic medium for critical inquiry and research. Pedro has worked as a strategic designer intern with Rotterdam-based digital agency IN10 and collaborated with other organisations to develop future-oriented strategies and visions. Recently, his work in academic research exploring the convergence of participatory and speculative design has resulted in a published article. He is now working as a freelance and independent design researcher with several self-initiated projects such as ‘(de)conceptualise’, ‘Thing-centered City Making’ , and more recently, a collaboration with design researcher Hugo Pilate, that resulted in a participatory workshop with multiple participants with the goal of exploring an alternative narrative for ‘Black Friday’.
pedrogilfarias.com
All project visuals © Pedro Gil