Time is infinite, our life is finite, and we cannot stop the time, but can capture the treasuring moment that we had, memorised them forever, don’t let time just passed by. Therefore this time we aimed to design a project that can help people evoke the treasuring time. Personally what I have perceived that treasuring time is a particular period time that could be 2 second, 2 years, or a time in regular, they impact us emotionally or physically hence we want to keep it in our memory. Therefore I chose a period time that I just came to Australia, it’s the first time that I took airplane, it’s the first time that I travelled to another country, and lived by myself, everything is unfamiliar and everything is new, I’m learning new things, making new friends, gaining new experiences every day, and I am curious and exciting about every day, although sometimes it’s little bit homesick. Therefore the project that I designed is aimed to recall the emotions, experiences, memories that I had in that particular time.
My product is a canister and contains several bowls inside. The bowls called memory bowl, they were designed in different colours, which convey different emotions, and inside of the bowl I write anything that can help me evoke the treasuring moment that I had, it could be a letter, a picture, or a word. For example, I wrote ‘Mi lai’ in a bowl, because she is my first friend in Australia, and every time when I read this bowl I’ll remember the time that I spend with her. For the canister, it has a hole on the lead, every time you have to shake the canister that allow one bowl comes out in random, you are curious about which one is going to come out. This feeling is just like the time in Australia, I was exciting about what is going to happen in next day.
The canister is designed in a small size, and well fit into your hands; you can to put any where you want, and the colours are mainly in bright warm primary colours, which are my impressions of Australia.
