Projects by the students of the
Bachelor Major in Art, Major in Design,
and the Master in Eco-Social Design

Connected Apart – New way of ordinary human contact

Course topic/s
Course/s

BA Product Design Project

Year

2020

semester

Connected Apart: NOT THE END OF CONTACT

The virus “Covid-19” meant the end of ordinary human contact, obliging people to keep distances.  Connected Apart can make you feel a person close to you, creating a new way of connecting people despite the distance.

Connected apart, with its three elements, combines two features that can make you feel a person close to you despite the distance: Contact, represented by a “hug”, and Voice, that makes feelings more human, thanks to the bluetooth connection between the item and a speaker.

We developed the project working between Predazzo and Valdobbiadene, transforming our bedrooms into a working place. We adapted to the quarantene situation working with daily-materials and our acquaintances became our workshop assistants.

Crating a product apart has been a big challenge but also a huge personal growth.