Dissolving Distances: Intimate embodiments in remote settings

Dissolving Distances is a research project that uses the body as a creative material in design while exploring ways to design for people who are close by heart but physically apart. Our bodies play a significant role in maintaining and nourishing intimacy. Dissolving Distances uses Research through Design, adopting a participatory approach in design, to better understand how to extend the sense of intimacy while making and wearing non-lasting objects—bio-rings made with agar agar, glycerin, and water. The project thus explores the potential of making and wearing something new and fragile as means to foster intimacy in distance.