Description:
PARS
Expressing your stance and making yourself heard as a community requires power and solidarity. As a society, we have been trying to achieve this through various ways ranging from creative performances to protests. Seeking a new medium through which communities can express themselves, we designed PARS: an inflatable responsive wearable that makes individuals feel powerful and connected by making use of physical occupation of space. The concept is based upon Laban’s theory of movement which examines the relationship between the body, space, shape, and effort. It incites power in the user by claiming space in the horizontal reach around the body. As PARS is a non-commercial concept for communities to adapt the concept of using space for expression, it is highly customizable and accessible. It responds to the user’s physical effort and translates it to an expressive performance; which also creates a deeper connection within the community and fosters solidarity.
Puck Verbeek 