Leaving a door ajar allows passers-by to take a peek to make sure all is well. STUCK reimagines the door with a flexible facade that provides seniors better control over security and privacy.
Sliding door with adjustable louvres
Resident can decide how much passers-by can peek into your private living space by controlling the degree of opening of the louvres. A visual expression of the residents' willingness for social exchange, or subtle invitation for a neighbourly check-in:
Open - Encourages exchange of greetings and visual check-ins
Closed - Signals a need for privacy
Patterned veils
In this variation, overlapping pattern layers create different visual porosities over the entrance of one's home.
Kopi Talk
While enjoying coffee by the window, residents can have small serendipitous interactions or share a bite with neighbours without having them come entirely into your home.
Communal routines
An exploration to blend and combine private spaces with communal routines.
In the instance of gardening, your private planter bed by the window is part of a community garden and can be cared for collectively by the community, who also watches for one another.
A Window to my world
The Life-Share Photo Frame is designed for seniors and their community to share and revisit cherished moments of their lives together.
Photos are treasured possessions that bear one’s past and identity. Digital photos and videos are habitually shared among friends and family to keep in touch and update about our lives. It is also typical practice to showcase photos of our loved ones in our homes — something commonly seen on prominent display in seniors' living spaces.
We explored how a digital photo frame can be better designed as a bridge to connect seniors with their families, and to also bolster connections within the community they are living in. Different types of content were tested:
- Family photos
- Facility activity photos
- Religious / Inspirational quotes
- Nature
Shared usable ledge extending from inside the home, through the wall, into the common space that becomes a platform for conversation and activities between you and your neighbour. Blurring the boundary between private and communal spaces to create opportunities for social interactions and building
common routines.
Photo Frame made for sharing
Digital photo frame made instinctively portable, with a dual-function handle to afford confident handling by seniors when on the move and to remain stable when rested on a tabletop. A handy way to share photographed moments as conversation starters and support for social interactions with peers.