To Contain

Project Briefing:
Examine 3d forms that contain things. Look broadly: the more variety the more points you get. For the design research phase disregard scale and consider all materials: Look At Form. Look at innovative approaches. Look at how various civilizations have approached containing things. THEN come up with designs for a ‘container’ that is designed to contain something specific. Consider various approaches: product design, art object, hybrid objects.

My Project:
I am a studying occupational therapy student as well as a metals and jewelry student. For this project my goal was to bring my two worlds together. My container reflects the Kawa model of occupational therapy which is a model of practice that represents your life as if it is a river. Simply stated, when the water flows freely, you are in good health. When complications arise it is said the river rocks are blocking your flow. My project consists of earrings in the form or river rocks. When I am feeling in good health, the bottoms of the earrings will hinge open letting "water" a silk material, flow out of them. When I am feeling unhealthy, the earrings would be closed up preventing the flow of the river.
This project has multiple stages that work on creating your piece in different ways. The first part is making it out of metal, the second using an injection molder, and lastly, through a cad program. This is the first one I made however, the design can evolve with each of the different processes we go through. Let me know what you think! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.