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The Uncomfortable Project by Katerina Kamprani
Counting several media coverage and conference lectures, Katerina Kamprani, certainly knows how to spend her free time and make things uncomfortable. The idea is simple, firstly she chooses an everyday object, easy in its functionality, processes and analyzes every little step of its usage and then sabotages discretely one of these steps. For the Athens-based architect this design experimentation led to "The Uncomfortable". It is a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects and her aim with this project is not only to deconstruct the viewer's domestic fundamentals of simple everyday objects but to deceive him somehow and make him believe that we are talking for an actual product.
The upper goal is to make the spectator simulate the interaction with the object in his mind. Kamprani explains that "Almost everything you see is modeled in a 3d program". Her first and only attempt so far to produce uncomfortable objects was a set of cutlery. People (end-users) work better with guidelines and have a specific perspective on the functionality of an everyday object. If this changes, even a little, then we have an awkward situation. Doing a research ourselves on her interviews and the readers' reactions to her designs we end up with a wish... To see real-life versions of Katerina's uncomfortable objects and try to use them. That would be really a challenge!!
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About Katerina Kamprani
She was born in Athens and studied Architecture in the National Technical University of Athens and some years after that she had courses in Design of Interactive and Industrial Products in the University of the Aegean. She works part-time for ncmp-architects, an Athens based architectural firm and she also freelance as a 3d visualiser and graphic designer.
