{"id":19560,"date":"2014-09-17T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/funktionide-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:47:56","slug":"funktionide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/funktionide\/","title":{"rendered":"funktionide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funktionide is an amorph object whose intention is to provide the owner with an atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. In the visions future people are lonely and they will eventually turn to \u201crobots\u201c for emotional satisfaction. This gives rise to a number of questions: What happens if products that were proposed as a relief against social isolation begin to become the solution? How will it affect human interactions if people become more and more focused on their products? What will these products look like, or more important how will they behave? In this way the research that the designer Stefan Ulrich has made as his thesis’ study\u00a0 has the intention to create a provocative picture for discussion, which enables us to question how much we want technological products to satisfy our emotional needs. To ask these questions will become part of the responsibility of future product design. The ambiguity of this scenario is, that it could be understood as a solution to a wide range of different kinds of loneliness. But it might as well be understood as a scenario which should be avoided by all means possible.<\/p>\n