Portfolio
Preserve It All.
This essay explores how emotional attachment to objects is formed, manipulated, and challenged within contemporary consumer culture. Drawing on theories of anthropomorphism, effort, and emotional value, it examines how design can encourage care and preservation, but also questions when such attachment becomes ethically problematic. Through experimental making and critical reflection, the essay ultimately reframes disposal not as failure or neglect, but as a mindful, caring act supported by design systems that reduce guilt, stress, and over-accumulation.
Redesigning Medical Devices
This essay examines how assistive medical devices, particularly hearing aids, are shaped by medicalised design that reinforces stigma and invisibility, and explores how redesigning these tools as expressive, fashion-led accessories could empower users and reshape societal perceptions of disability.
Straws
This piece examines the paper straw as a symbol of performative sustainability, questioning whether its widespread adoption genuinely reduces environmental harm or simply shifts guilt away from corporations and consumers. It also reflects on how speed, convenience, and urban habits shape our dependence on unnecessary objects.